Bird's-eye View of Andersonville Prison from the South-East

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Bird's-eye View of Andersonville Prison from the South-East

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Title: n.d., Birds-eye View of Andersonville Prison from the South-East

Collection Number: MS 2004-5

Scope and Content: Poster of a Birds-eye View of Andersonville Prison from the South-East

Language: English

Type of Resource: text

Genre: Poster

Digital Origin: reformatted digital

Subject: American Civil War

Subject: Andersonville Prison

Subject: Camp Sumter

Inclusive Dates: n.d.

Location of Originals: Archives of Michigan

Use Restrictions: Please contact the Archives of Michigan for permission to publish.

Access Restrictions: To preserve the original items, this collection is only available online.

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Biography or Historical Note: The largest and most famous of 150 military prisons of the Civil War, Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers imprisoned here, nearly 13,000 died. At its most crowded, it held more than 32,000 men, where forced overcrowding compounded problems of supply and distribution of essential resources.

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