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

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Living History Volunteers

Living history volunteers pose as Union Prisoners of War

NPS/Andersonville National Historic Site

Living history volunteers pose as Union Prisoners of War

Living History volunteers provide visitors with special programs and events throughout the year, assisting visitors in better understanding the prisoner of war experience at Camp Sumter during the Civil War. 

While living history can be done throughout the year, the park's annual living history event is the second weekend of March each year.

To find out how you can help, please contact the Living History Coordinator at 229 924-0343 or through e-mail.

2012 Living History Weekend Participants!
The 2012 event will be the weekend of March 10 & 11, 2012. We encourage and welcome any interested interpreters to apply, but only those that receive confirmation from the park will be permitted to participate in the 2012 Andersonville Living History Weekend. Using the application form found in the participant handbook below, please indicate the number of people that will be participating and what type impression they wish to portray. You must register before February 1, 2012.

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Did You Know?

Plaque at entrance to National Prisoner of War Museum

On April 9, 1942 on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, 10,000 American soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese.  Exactly 56 years later the National Prisoner of War Museum was dedicated.  Many former POWs and their families attended, including survivors of the Bataan Death March.