Andersonville is one of the more well known prison camps of the Civil War. Andersonville was actually a name given to the camp by the Union prisoners, its official name was Camp Sumter. It was built near a small village in remote part of Georgia. The Confederacy wanted to keep the Union prisoners away from any potential raids. The images above show the basic structure of the camp. It was an area of about 26.5 acres, and was surrounded by several wooden stockades. It was only supposed to hold several thousand, but by the end of the war about 45,000 Union soldiers had been held there.
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