Andersonville, GA

Andersonville National Historic Site was a 1864 camp for Union Prisoners of War. This picture shows the shelter, called “Shebangs” available to the prisoners, which they constructed themselves. A creek, the only water supply for 32,000 men. It soon became contaminated. The rations were almost none existant, because the Confederate government was impoverished.




















Cemetery at Andersonville with 16,000 soldiers buried. Thirteen thousand of these died during the Civil War. This is the monument and burial sites for PA. Soldiers are still being buried there.