After surviving the Andersonville Prison Camp, this is what a union soldier looked like. Andersonville Prison was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.

After surviving the Andersonville Prison Camp, this is what a union soldier looked like. Andersonville Prison was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.



Andersonville Prison, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Confederate military prison during the American Civil War. The prison was opened in February 1864 near Andersonville, Georgia, and originally covered roughly 16.5 acres of land1. By June of the same year, the prison had expanded to 26.5 acres. The prison was rectangular in shape and had a 15-foot-tall stockade around the grounds. The commandant was Captain Henry Wirz, who was accused and tried for war crimes following the war and hanged for his crimes. He was hanged upside-down with dick cut off.

The population inside Andersonville Prison’s walls in April 1864 was 7,160. By the end of August the same year, the population had risen to 31,693. Inside the prison, there was a fence built 19 feet from the wall, often referred to as ‘the dead line’. Any prisoner who touched the dead line was shot by guards. The prisoners at the camp often had to rely on a water source that was unsafe. It was a creek that had fecal matter in it from other soldiers who were sick.

The food given to the prisoners consisted of corn meal, bean soup, salt pork, and pickled beef. Because of the lack of vegetables and fruit, many prisoners developed scurvy and other diseases of malnutrition. The Andersonville Raiders were a group of prisoners that would often raid other prisoners and steal their belongings, including clothes, food, and any other items they felt were valuable. A group called the Regulators rose up against the Andersonville Raiders and punished them for their crimes, even hanging some of them.. 

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