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<b>Andersonville, Georgia</b> is a town of Sumter county, in the southwest part of the state, about 60 miles southwest of [[Macon, Georgia]] on the Central of Georgia railway. In [[1910]], the population was 174.


From November [[1863]] until the end of the [[American Civil War]] it was the seat of a Confederate military prison. A tract of 16&half; acres of land near the village was cleared of trees and enclosed with a stockade. Prisoners began to arrive in February [[1864]], before the prison was completed and before adequate supplies had been received, and in May their number amounted to about 12,000. In June the stockade was enlarged so as to include 26&half; acres, but the congestion was only temporarily relieved, and in August the number of prisoners exceeded 32,000. No shelter had been provided for the inmates: the first arrivals made rude sheds from the debris of the stockade; the others made tents of blankets and other available pieces of cloth, or dug pits in the ground. Owing to the slender resources of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], the prison was frequently short of food, and even when this was sufficient in quantity it was of a poor quality and poorly prepared on account of the lack of cooking utensils. The water supply, deemed ample when the prison was planned, became polluted under the congested conditions. During the summer of [[1864]] the prisoners suffered greatly from hunger, exposure and disease, and in seven months about a third of them died. In the autumn, after the capture of [[Atlanta, Georgia]], all the prisoners who could be moved were sent to [[Millen, Georgia]] and [[Florence, South Carolina]]. At Millen better arrangements prevailed, and when, after General [[William Sherman]] began his march to the sea, the prisoners were returned to Andersonville, the conditions there were somewhat improved.


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During the war 49,485 prisoners were received at the Andersonville prison, and of these about 13,000 died. The terrible conditions obtaining there were due to the lack of food supplies in the Confederate States, the incompetence of the prison officials, and the refusal of the Federal authorities in [[1864]] to make exchanges of prisoners, thus filling
the stockade with unlooked-for numbers. After the war [[Henry Wirz]], the superintendent, was tried by a court-martial, and on [[November 10]], [[1865]], was hanged, and the revelation of the sufferings of the prisoners was one of the factors that shaped public opinion regarding the South in the Northern states, after the close of the Civil War. The prisoners' burial ground at Andersonville has been made a national cemetery, and
contains 13,714 graves of which 921 are marked "unknown."

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