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Andersonville National Historic SiteSection H of Andersonville National Cemetery
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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.


 

 
Sack of Cement Cross on exhibit in the National POW Museum  

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The largest artifact in the National Prisoner of War Museum is the “Sack of Cement Cross” from Camp O’Donnell in the Philippines. The total height of the cross is 8 ft. The cross was built as a memorial to American prisoners who perished in the camp.

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