• Boy Scout volunteers placing flags in the Andersonville National Cemetery for Memorial Day

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Civil War to Civil Rights Trading Cards

NPS/ANDE

One of the new trading cards coming in the summer of 2012.

Looking for a fun and educational way to learn about America's Civil War? Collect the National Park Service's Civil War to Civil Rights trading cards available, free, at select National Park Service sites in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War.

Andersonville will be joining this program during the summer of 2012.

Look for more information about the cards soon!

Did You Know?

Plaque at entrance to National Prisoner of War Museum

On April 9, 1942 on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, 10,000 American soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese.  Exactly 56 years later the National Prisoner of War Museum was dedicated.  Many former POWs and their families attended, including survivors of the Bataan Death March.