Episode 15: Andersonville Prison

About this episode

CC and Kitty discuss the history and conditions of Andersonville Prison during the Civil War.

CC and Kitty discuss Andersonville Prison, also known as Camp Sumter, which became the Confederacy’s most infamous prison camp and the deadliest landscape of the Civil War. Disease, overcrowding, poor sanitation, exposure, and malnutrition pushed the death toll to nearly 13,000. Andersonville still stands as a memorial to American prisoners of war and a reminder of what captivity looked like when systems collapsed and human beings were left to die in plain sight. REFERENCES: https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00cham/page/n9/mode/2up https://www.nps.gov/ande/index.htm https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/escapefromandersonville.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/gettysburg https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/09/the-maps-of-andersonville-prison/ https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3527804/dod-wont-stop-looking-until-all-powmias-are-home/

People in this episode

Hosts: CC, Kitty

Topics covered

• Andersonville Prison
• Civil War
• prison camps
• American history

Keywords

• Camp Sumter
• death toll
• memorial
• prisoners of war

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Confederacy

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