* 1865 – The steamboat, carrying 2, 400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1, 700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.

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* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

* 1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

* November 10 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier to be executed for war crimes.

* February 25 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia ( the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia seven days before ).

The Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.

* November 15 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide head-on in Andersonville, Michigan ( northwest of Detroit ).

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** George C. Scott – The Andersonville Trial as Lt. Col. N. P. Chipman

Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States.

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This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

During the 14 months the Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia, existed, more than 45, 000 Union soldiers were confined here.

Only one person — Captain Henry Wirz, the commandant of the prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia — was executed for war crimes.

This was based on the military trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.

Several men of Topsfield died as prisoners in the Confederates ' notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

Prisoner of War cover to prisoner detained at Andersonville National Historic Site | Andersonville POW camp in Georgia.

Four months later he photographed the execution of Henry Wirz, commanding officer at the infamous Andersonville Prisoner of War camp in Georgia.

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For six months he was held at the Confederate prisons of Andersonville, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, Macon, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina, where on November 29, 1864, like his predecessor, Hazen S. Pingree, Bliss escaped from a Confederate prison.

Because of the high death toll, Libby Prison is generally regarded as second in notoriety to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.

Lakeview is also home to Boystown, which, along with Andersonville, are the best known LGBT neighborhoods.

Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.

The director also helmed two films for Turner Network Television in 1996 and 1997, Andersonville and George Wallace, that were highly praised.

* Correspondence & manuscripts, 1804-1891, at Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University See also papers of nephew Austin Wiswall, officer with 9th US Colored Troops, captured and held at Andersonville.

He also received Emmy Award nominations for his television performances in He & She and The Andersonville Trial.

The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter ( also known as Andersonville Prison ), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.

As well as the former prison, the site also contains the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum.

Their risky raids behind Confederate lines were also designed to free federal prisoners held at Macon, Georgia, and liberate the nearly 30, 000 captives at Andersonville prison.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.

Today Andersonville National Historic Site serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history.

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The infamous Andersonville National Cemetery is at the southwestern tip of the county.

* Andersonville National Historic Site ( part )

The Detroit and Milwaukee Railway ( now part of the Canadian National Railway ) was built in 1856, and two stations were in the township, in Andersonville and Davisburg.

He was buried in Andersonville National Cemetery.

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