Historic Photos

Historic newspaper image of raising a flag in a cemetery.
Clara Barton raising the flag over the Andersonville National Cemetery, August 1865.
NPS/Andersonville National Historic Site
 

Did You Know?

Monument showing the Shield of the Grand Army of the Republic at the historic prison site

The site of Andersonville prison was owned by both the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman’s Relief Corp before being transferred to the federal government in 1910.  The prison site was administered, along with Andersonville National Cemetery, by the Department of the Army until 1971.