Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 237. It is located in the southwest...
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The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter),...
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refractory materials. Bauxite has been commercially mined in the Andersonville, Georgia district since 1914. Bauxite deposits occur in beds of kaolinite...
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Henry Wirz (category Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War)
Civil War. He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners...
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Andersonville may refer to: Andersonville, Georgia, site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp Andersonville Prison, Confederate prisoner of war...
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"Camp Sumter", Andersonville (as it was later named by prisoners) was established in February 1864 in the small town of Andersonville, Georgia. The camp was...
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fatalities. During a period of 14 months in Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia, 13,000 (28%) of the 45,000 Union soldiers confined there died....
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died at the Confederate camp in Andersonville, Georgia from starvation and disease. In the late period of the war, Georgia also had difficulty supplying...
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Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865)...
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trial of the commandant of the infamous Civil War prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. It ran for 179 performances from December 1959 to June 1960. Scott...
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supervised by the National Park Service and include the Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville; Appalachian National Scenic Trail; Chattahoochee...
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Peter Whelan (priest) (section Andersonville Prison)
to the Union prisoners-of-war held at Andersonville, Georgia, where he became known as the "Angel of Andersonville." According to a biographer in 1959,...
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Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are...
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Schley County (north) Andersonville National Historic Site (part) Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Americus (county seat) Andersonville De Soto Leslie Plains...
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Wirz, the only commandant of Camp Sumter prisoner of war camp near Andersonville, Georgia. The Confederacy held approximately 45,000 Union prisoners at Camp...
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Phone: 229 924-0343 Contact. "National Parks & National Cemeteries - Andersonville National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved...
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Community Charter School[citation needed] Westwood Schools[citation needed] Andersonville Theological Seminary has its headquarters based in Camilla. The distance...
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Henry Wirz, the commandant of a notorious prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, was tried and convicted by a military court, and executed on November...
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Georgia St. James Episcopal Cemetery, Marietta Westview Cemetery, Atlanta (largest civilian cemetery in southeastern United States) Andersonville National...
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nearby Archery. Andersonville National Historic Site and the National Prisoner of War Museum are located in the vicinity of Plains. Georgia Southwestern...
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000 Union prisoners of war confined in Camp Sumter, located near Andersonville, Georgia, 13,000 (28%) died. At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10% of...
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prisoners of war from Richmond, Virginia, to the town of Andersonville, in remote southwest Georgia. It proved a death camp because of overcrowding and a...
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Aquilla J. Dyess (category People from Sumter County, Georgia)
February 2, 1944. Aquilla James Dyess was born on January 11, 1909, in Andersonville, Georgia. As a youth, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout, highest in the...
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communities are Hartwell, Georgia, across the lake to the southwest, and Anderson, South Carolina, to the North. The town of Andersonville was settled at the...
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13 miles (21 km) to Marshallville and southwest 11 miles (18 km) to Andersonville. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total...
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Flint River (redirect from Flint (river, Georgia))
within 5 miles (8 km) of Andersonville, the site of the Andersonville prison during the Civil War. In southwestern Georgia, the river flows through downtown...
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The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia (the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia, seven days before)...
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release date 28 1 "Kelly Clarkson" Columbus, Ohio; Decatur, Georgia; Andersonville, Georgia; Marietta, Ohio; Coal Run, Ohio July 23, 2013 (2013-07-23)...
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Reconstruction era (category 1860s in Georgia (U.S. state))
people—Captain Henry Wirz, the commandant of the prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, and guerilla leaders Champ Ferguson and Henry C. Magruder—were...
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