ANDERSONVILLE PRISON CAMP

JOHN MCELROY WROTE

• Five hundred men moved silently toward
• the gates that would shut out life and hope
• for most of them forever.

ANDERSONVILLE PRISON

• called Camp Sumter
• it was the deadliest POW camp for the Americans.
• 12,913 of 45,000 Union prisoners died
• due to starvation, malnutrition
• diarrhea, and disease

CAMP SUMTER

• On the former site of Camp Sumter is a National POW Museum
• To honor American POW from all wars
• It includes:
• extensive collections from "Hanoi Hilton" and the Vietnam War
• a cemetery for Union soldiers perished at the camp