In 1864, the first prisoners arrived at a camp that became the Civil War's deadliest
The first prisoners arrived at the notorious Andersonville camp in 1864, beginning a dark chapter where overcrowding and disease turned a pasture into the Civil War's deadliest ground.
In February 1864, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, received its first Union captives. Designed to hold 10,000 men, the camp's population quickly swelled to over 32,000. With no permanent shelters and a contaminated water supply, conditions became nightmarish.
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