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African Americans at Andersonville

When the gates of Camp Sumter at Andersonville Station opened on Feburary 25, 1864, no one knew if African American Union Soldiers would arrive as prisones of war of the Confederacy. Read an article written by Park Ranger Don Pettijohn in Feb. 2006 on African Americans at Andersonville here.


 

 
Headstones in the National Cemetery at Andersonville  

Did You Know?
Andersonville prison was the deadliest prisoner of war camp during the Civil War with a total of nearly 13,000 deaths. Over 40% of all Union prisoners of war who died during the Civil War perished at Andersonville.

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