When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William T. Sherman was approaching, the prison camp's Confederate officers rounded up their thousands of Union army POWs for a swift ...

The largest and most notorious of Civil War prisons, Camp Sumter had a short but deadly history: Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 Union soldiers died, mostly of starvation and disease.

The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter , a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Most of the site ...

Andersonville was the site of the largest prison in the Civil War, Camp Sumter. "The prison itself was not fully prepared to start bringing prisoners in," Sernaker said.

BLACKSHEAR, Ga. (AP) — A historical marker sits shaded by trees on the shoulder of Georgia 203, where city outskirts fade to full country. The marker is the only indication that 5,000 Union ...

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 ...

O'Dea, an ireland native who fought in the Civil War and was a POW in the Confederate's notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He survived and moved to Cohoes, and created a huge artwork of ...

Slideshow: A Civil War POW Camp in Watercolor. On November 27, 1863, Union Private Robert Knox Sneden was captured by soldiers under the command of Confederate leader John Singleton Mosby at ...

Letter writer Rich Bigler has me comparing the Pallet camp with Andersonville, the notorious Civil War POW camp. I can see why there’s confusion. While management of the Pallet camp is indeed ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Camp Douglas was shut down after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The prisoners who were still there were ordered to take an oath of loyalty to the United States, and the buildings were torn down ...