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

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** Andersonville National Historic Site, Confederate POW prison camp in Georgia holding Union POWs

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

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.

* 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.

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

* 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 ).

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.

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

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Thomas Eston Hemings enlisted in the United States Colored Troops ( USCT ); captured, he spent time at the Andersonville POW camp and died in a POW camp in Meridian, Mississippi.

The United States, however, provided more amenities, such as wireless sets, to Confederate prisoners than the minimal amenities provided in Confederate POW camps such as Andersonville, Georgia.

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

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.

Farther south, it comes within of Andersonville, the site of the Andersonville prison during the Civil War.

Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of Andersonville.

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

In 1974, long-time mayor Lewis Easterlin and a group of concerned citizens decided to promote tourism in the town by turning the clock back and making Andersonville look much as it did during the American Civil War.

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

" After describing his months as a prisoner of war of the Confederacy, the author recounts the imprisonment and trial of Major Henry Wirz, CSA, commandant of the prison camp operated at Andersonville, Ga. during the American Civil War.

* Wood, Peter H. " Winslow Homer and the American Civil War " A lecture on Homer's painting " Near Andersonville " and his relationship to the Civil War.

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( The Prisoner's Hope )" a song written in 1864 by George F. Root in response to conditions in the Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prison during the American Civil War.

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.