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

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Brochures

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Brochures are made available on the park website or upon request either by telephone, in writing or by e-mail.

The brochures listed below are all PDF documents. Adobe Reader is required to open these documents. Users with slower connections may find it easier to download the documents before viewing them. To do that, right-click and select "save target as". Then, open the documents with your Adobe Reader. 

Andersonville Map and Guide Brochure [772KB PDF]
Updated 2006; reprinted 2011

Site Bulletins
A site bulletin is generally a publication produced in-house by the park to provide an in-depth review of park related themes and topics. Formatted to fit on legal-size paper unless otherwise noted.

Documenting Prisoners of War held at Andersonville [284k PDF File]
Every day visitors come to the park and inquire how they can learn more about their ancestors who were held, died, or worked here during the Civil War. This brochure explains the resources available and the park and provides advice on how to find out more. Updated in August 2011.

Preserving the Prison; Saving a Nation The Civilian Conservation Corps at Andersonville [PDF File]
In 1935 &36, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp operated in what is now Andersonville National Historic Site. Updated in May 2012.

Did You Know?

American flags in front of white headstones

The earliest commemorative service in the National Cemetery was held on Emancipation Day, January 1, 1869. Teachers and students of the Freedman's school, along with the Rev. Dr. Hamilton Pierson held memorial services and superintended the decoration of the the National Cemetery.