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    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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  • 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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    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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  • "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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    supervised by the National Park Service and include the Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville; Appalachian National Scenic Trail; Chattahoochee...
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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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    to the Union prisoners-of-war held at Andersonville, Georgia, where he became known as the "Angel of Andersonville." Nonetheless, according to a biographer...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Community Charter School[citation needed] Westwood Schools[citation needed] Andersonville Theological Seminary has its headquarters based in Camilla. The distance...
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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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  • Gallery. Andersonville, Mailing Address: Andersonville National Historic Site 496 Cemetery Road; Us, GA 31711 Phone: 229 924-0343 Contact. "Andersonville National...
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  • war. They were sent to POW camps at Richmond, Virginia, and later Andersonville, Georgia, where Union prisoners suffered from outbreaks of disease in overcrowded...
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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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    incident, and its close proximity to Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Andersonville National Historic Site, and Koinonia Farm. For its first two decades...
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  • 14 generals from Georgia (1917) Fitzgerald: Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site (1920) Muscogee: Stonewall Jackson Dam Andersonville: Robert E. Lee Street...
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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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    Luther H. Story (category Military personnel from Georgia (U.S. state))
    announced that his remains had been identified. He is to be reinterred at Andersonville National Cemetery on Memorial Day, 2023. Biography portal List of Medal...
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