Camp Sumter, known as Andersonville, operated for only fourteen months from February 1864 to May 1865 as the Confederate Army's largest prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Located in southwestern Georgia, the prison was hastily constructed using slave labor to relocate Union prisoners from Richmond to a more secure location after the prisoner exchange system collapsed in 1863. The camp was designed to hold 10,000 men but swelled to over 33,000 prisoners by August 1864, creating c
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Camp Sumter, officially established in February 1864 near Andersonville, Georgia, became the Confederacy's largest prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the Civil War. Built hastily using slave labor to relieve overcrowding in Richmond prisons, the stockade was designed to hold 10,000 Union soldiers but swelled to over 33,000 by August 1864. The facility covered 26.5 acres surrounded by a wooden stockade with a "deadline" marked 19 feet inside the walls—crossing it meant guard
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