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Andersonville

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Andersonville village (1990 pop. 277), SW Ga., near Americus; inc. 1881. In Andersonville Prison, officially known as Camp Sumter, tens of thousands of Union soldiers were confined during the Civil War under conditions so bad that nearly 13,000 soldiers died. Its location is part of Andersonville National Historic Site (495 acres/200 hectares), a national memorial for all American prisoners of war, with a museum dedicated to them. The site also includes Andersonville National Cemetery, which contains more than 15,000 soldiers' graves.

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Andersonville

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Andersonville, novel by MacKinlay Kantor, published in 1955, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

Set in the Civil War at the Confederate prison in Georgia whose name is the title of the book, it treats the dreadful conditions of confinement that led to the death of some 12,000 Union soldiers, for which the commander, Captain Henry Wirz, was in 1865 charged with murder and hanged.

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Andersonville

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Andersonville a village in Sumter county, Georgia, which during the American Civil War was the site of a Confederate military prison for Union soldiers; its high death rate was notorious.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Andersonville." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Civil War prisons were terrible, but Andersonville was in a class by... Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 3/23/1996
	Andersonville: The Last Depot. Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1996
	Blacks in Andersonville; Labored in prison by building walls, digging graves... Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 11/12/2009