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

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Park Day

Volunteers cleaning monuments and exhibits

NPS/Andersonville NHS

Volunteers cleaning monuments and exhibits in the national cemetery.

Join us for the next Park Day on Saturday, March 31, 2012!

Each year the Civil War Trust sponsors Park Day on the first Saturday of April. This event joins parks and volunteers nationwide for a day dedicated to preserving America's Civil War sites.

Volunteers and park employees will work on rebuilding a replica prisoner shelter in the northeast corner of the prison site.

For information on volunteering for Park Day, contact the park at 229 924-0343.

2012 event news release

Did You Know?

Close-up of Red Cross symbol on the monument to Clara Barton at the historic prison site

Clara Barton accompanied the Army expedition which established of the National Cemetery at Andersonville. She raised the Stars and Stripes over the cemetery for the first time on August 17, 1865. More...