This is a photo of a Union soldier in 1865 who survived the Andersonville Prison Camp, a Confederate led prisoner of war camp during the final 14 months of the American Civil War. The site was commanded by Captain Henry Wirz, who was tried and executed after the war for war crimes. It was overcrowded to four times its capacity, with an inadequate water supply, inadequate food rations, and unsanitary conditions. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at the camp during the war, nearly 1

Camp Sumter, known as Andersonville, operated for only fourteen months from February 1864 to May 1865 as the Confederate Army's largest prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Located in southwestern Georgia, the prison was hastily constructed using slave labor to relocate Union prisoners from Richmond to a more secure location after the prisoner exchange system collapsed in 1863. The camp was designed to hold 10,000 men but swelled to over 33,000 prisoners by August 1864, creating c