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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
| November 27, 1863 |
Concerned with the 10 deaths a day at a prison camp in Richmond (Belle Isle), the medical director recommends that another prisoner of war camp be established.
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Civil War - 1863 |
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| December 21, 1863 |
Sidney Winder orders construction to begin on Camp Sumter near Andersonville, Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| February 24, 1864 |
Prisoners (about 500) begin arriving at Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| March 27, 1864 |
Herny Wirz takes command of the inmates at Camp Sumter (Andersonville)
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| May 7, 1864 |
Union officers are transferred from Camp Sumter (Andersonville) to Camp Oglethorpe, on the Macon fairgrounds
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City of Macon, Georgia |
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| July 29, 1864 |
Construction begins on Camp Lawton north of Millen, Georgia (Jenkins County) to alleviate the overcrowded conditions at Camp Sumter in Andersville, Georgia.
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Jenkins County, Georgia |
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| August 1, 1864 |
Prisoner population at Andersonville exceeds 30,000 and is rapidly rising
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| August 11, 1864 |
Prisoner population at Andersonville reaches 33,000, deaths occasionally reach 100 per day.
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| April 27, 1865 |
Steamship Sultana exploded about ten miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. Many of the dead had survived horrible conditions at Georgia's Andersonville Prison and were returning home.
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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Civil War - 1865 |
| May 7, 1865 |
Henry Wirz, commander of inmates at Andersonville (Camp Sumter), arrested
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| November 10, 1865 |
Henry Wirz (not Wirtz, as his name is frequently misspelled), commander of the Confederate prisoner of war garrison at Andersonville, is hung in Washington, D. C.
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| October 16, 1970 |
Camp Sumter, a Union POW camp, becomes Andersonville National Historic Site.
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| March 3, 1996 |
Andersonville, a movie about Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia is released. Some of the film was shot in Turin, Georgia
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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| April 9, 1998 |
The National P.O.W. Museum opens at Andersonville, GA
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Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia
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