Union soldiers in the tens of thousands were imprisoned at the Andersonville camp in Georgia. Nearly a third of them died there, victims of exposure to heat and cold, polluted water, starvation ...

Among the prominent Civil War veterans laid to rest in the Capital Region is Union soldier Thomas O'Dea. He survived the harrowing conditions of the Confederate prison Andersonville before coming to ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

The deadliest ground of the American Civil War lies in rural southwest Georgia. It is not a battlefield. It’s a small area, 26 1/2 acres, roughly half the size of Hartford’s Bushnell Park. There, over ...

Members of the Ocmulgee Archaeological Society used ground penetrating radar Friday to try to find the location of the officer’s stockade of Andersonville prison. Special A group of amateur ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - To mark the 157th anniversary of the hanging of six “raiders” by their fellow prisoners, Andersonville National Historic Site will be hosting a Raiders-themed tour of the ...

During the Civil War the Confederate Prison at Andersonville, Ga., was the most notorious, for its terrible conditions and high death rate. There were at least 150 prisons, in both the South and North ...

A few minutes past 10 a.m., Nov. 10, 1865, former Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp commander Capt. Henry Wirz walked briskly from the Old Capitol prison in Washington D.C., where he had been held ...

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