"Victory from Within" Traveling Exhibit
Andersonville National Historic Site is working with a professional exhibit fabrication firm in 2011 to produce "Victory From Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience," a 1,200 square foot traveling exhibition. It is anticipated that the exhibit will begin touring the nation in 2012 to introduce the public to the prisoner of war story. An overview of the exhibit can be viewed by selecting Exhibit Plan, 2009 part 1 and Exhibit Plan, 2009 part 2. The exhibit floorplan can be viewed as well as several exhibit panel concept designs: Work Details, Defiance, and Communication. |
Did You Know?
The deadline at the Andersonville prison consisted of a rail about four feet off the ground that was situated nineteen feet from the stockade wall. Any prisoner who crossed this line with any part of his body was likely to be shot without warning by a guard in a guard tower.