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Andersonville National Historic Site Superintendent Fred Boyles speaking on Memorial Day 2005
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Historic photographs of Captain Henry Wirz, a Union POW, and Dorrance Atwater
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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.


 

 
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Clara Barton at Andersonville
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Portrait of a federal soldier held at Andersonville
Researching Civil War Prisoners
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Close-up of Red Cross symbol on the monument to Clara Barton at the historic prison site

Did You Know?
Clara Barton was one of the principal people behind the establishment of the National Cemetery at Andersonville. She raised the Stars and Stripes over the cemetery for the first time on August 17, 1865.
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