As the young boy entered a dark hallway, he came upon an imposing 4 1/2-by-9-foot pencil sketch that Thomas O'Dea created from his memories at Camp Sumter prison in Andersonville, Ga. He drew the ...

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the last 14 months of the Civil War. Andersonville encompassed 26.5 acres and was ...

What happened at Andersonville in the Civil War? Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing ...

and then reopen at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 is the 160th anniversary of the arrival of the first US soldiers to Camp Sumter prison, which has come down through history, better known as Andersonville Prison.” ...

“O’Dea effectively enlists, is in a camp, goes off and then, bang, you are in Andersonville Prison,” said Shiels, who is researching the experiences of Irish Americans who served in the ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...