Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from ...

Among the prominent Civil War veterans laid to rest in the Capital Region is Union soldier Thomas O'Dea. He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming ...

After surviving the Confederates’ notorious Andersonville Prison ... American flags on the veterans’ graves. Memorial Day was formally established in the aftermath of the Civil War, America ...

It’s a horrific story about a sad chapter in the nation’s history: the Civil War. Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter ... and made our hearts fail within us. Before us were forms that ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison ... of African-American POWs. And so the tragedy of Andersonville becomes remembered as the tragedy of white prisoners who were temporarily unfree. But Andersonville ...

Andersonville ... sewers. Camp Douglas was shut down after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The prisoners who were still there were ordered to take an oath of loyalty to the United States ...

Susie Sernaker, chief of interpretation at the Andersonville National Historic Site, talks about the 160th anniversary of Camp Sumter. Tell us about ... nearly 13,000 Civil War soldiers died ...

But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps ... during the American Civil War from ...