Andersonville

Andersonville, GA was a Confederate POW camp that was only open for 14 months, but over 32,000 died here. They barely had enough food for themselves at the end of the war, so you can imagine the stockades enclosing 26 acres was miserable.

www.andersonvillegeorgia.info  This day it rained 4 hours so we drove through the former POW camp and the active cemetery where veterans can still be buried, just like Vicksburg.  The civil war gravestones are sandwiched together as they were burind in trenches, averaging 110 deaths a day.  Because a soldier who had to keep records of hospital dealths and burial sites, made a copy for himself, he contacted Clara Barton after the war and they identified and labeled the graves of 95% of the dead soldiers.