ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Andersonville National Historic Site ... anniversary of the arrival of the first US soldiers to Camp Sumter prison, which has come down through history, better known ...

As the young boy entered a dark hallway, he came upon an imposing 4 1/2-by-9-foot pencil sketch that Thomas O'Dea created from his memories at Camp Sumter prison in Andersonville, Ga. He drew the ...

“O’Dea effectively enlists, is in a camp, goes off and then, bang, you are in Andersonville Prison,” said Shiels, who is researching the experiences of Irish Americans who served in the ...

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the last 14 months of the Civil War. Andersonville encompassed 26.5 acres and was ...

the camp saw overcrowding ... were then moved to other Confederate prison camps, including ones in Charleston, S.C., and Florence, Ga. While imprisoned in Andersonville, George Phillips wrote ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

The Pell City Historical Society presents a program on the Andersonville Prison on Wednesday, April 16, at The Venue in downtown Pell City at 1 p.m. The program features Dr. Norman Dasinger ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - Andersonville National Cemetery ... at 7 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. Please note that the main entrance, prison site tour road, and National Prisoner of War Museum will ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WTVM) - Andersonville National Historic Site will commemorate Memorial Day with events that are free and open to the public, beginning on Saturday, May 27 and concluding on ...