Description Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War Prison was only in operation for little more than one year, from 1864 into 1865.
Thousa.
Of the almost forty thousand captured Federal soldiers, sailors and civilians who entered its gates, some thirteen thousand died there.
During that time, it also became America\'s deadliest prison.
In just a few of those months, however, it became the largest city in Georgia and the fifth largest city in the Confederate States of America.
Description Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Civil War Prison was only in operation for little more than one year, from 1864 into 1865