Andersonville


 * Andersonville**



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Andersonville was a Georgia town of about twenty people. There was a good supply of fresh water and it was also close to the Southwestern Railroad. In 1863, Andersonville was evaluated by a Confederate Captain W. Sidney Winder. Andersonville was soon chosen to be a site of one of the largest Confederacy prisons of the Civil War. Captain Richard B. Winder was in charge of building the prison, after making this large penitentiary it was given the name Camp Sumter. Winder's estimated capacity of the camp was enough to hold 10,000 prisoners. This estimate would be proven wrong because later on into the war, Andersonville became a Confederate prison of sometimes more than 32,000 soldiers at a time. Prison conditions were terrible. Prisoners were not fed nearly enough food that was needed for them to survive. Many diseases spread through out the prison and soldiers began to die from starvation and malnutriton. An trading system was made by the Confederates. The Confederates decided that one general was worth 60 men, a colonel was worth 15 men, a lieutenant for 4 men, and a sergeant was worth 2 men. Camp Sumter was stopped after the Union's victory of the civil war. Andersonville was stopped but the soldiers and their family members never forgot. 

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Click the link to view a photo of a prisoner of Andersonville - **WARNING - IT'S VERY GRAPHIC!** - and may not be suitable for all ages to view. Andersonville Prisoner