This morning we visited Civil War Fort Sumter, known commonly as the Andersonville War Prison. At the end of the war, the fort enclosure was over 21 acres of Northern Armies prisoners who had been reduced pretty much to skin and bones and riddled with lice, dysentery, scurvy, and smallpox. They were dying at over 300 a day.
Living conditions were abdominal.
The original stockade encompassed most of this open field.
The attached cemetery is still used for dead soldiers who have spent some time as POWs.
This National Historic Park is charged by Congress to interpret and preserve the whole POW story (all wars and actions.)
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