Andersonville

Andersonville, a village in Georgia, U.S., noted as having been the seat of a Confederate States military prison, which was notorious for unhealthfulness and for barbarity of discipline. Between February 15, 1864, and April 1865, 49,485 prisoners were received, of whom 12,926 died in that time of various diseases. Henry Wirz, the superintendent, was tried for injuring the health and destroying the lives of the soldiers confined here, was found guilty, and hanged, November 10, 1865. The long trenches where the soldiers were buried have since been laid out as a cemetery.