Qualla: Andersonville, Georgia https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-georgia-wp/20-03-175-whelan.jpg Qualla: Andersonville, Georgia https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia Andersonville, Georgia: Introduction https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia/ Photo credit Gabby Brito, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two hundred and thirty-seven people live in Andersonville, Georgia. Nearly 13,000 are buried there. The arithmetic of this tiny Sumter County village has been lopsided since 1864, when the Confederate army packed 45,000 Union prisoners into a stockade built for a fraction of that number, and disease, starvation, and exposure did what bullets could not. Today the graves outnumber the living by more than fifty to one, and the town's Main Street, carefully restored to its Civil War appearance, leads visitors toward a past that refuses to be forgotten.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-georgia-wp/djsp-andersonville-georgia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Andersonville, Georgia: A Railroad Stop with the Wrong Name https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia/ Photo credit Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0. The place began as Anderson Station, named for John Anderson, a director of the South Western Railroad, when the line was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus in 1853. When the U.S. post office was established in November 1855, the government renamed the station Andersonville to ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-georgia-wp/djsp-andersonville-georgia-a-railroad-stop-with-the-wrong-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Andersonville, Georgia: The Stockade and Its Dead https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia/ Photo credit Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0. In February 1864, the Confederate government established Camp Sumter at Andersonville to house Union prisoners of war. The stockade was designed for 10,000 men. By August 1864, it held more than 32,000, and an average of 96 prisoners were dying every day. The causes were grimly p...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-georgia-wp/djsp-andersonville-georgia-the-stockade-and-its-dead.mp3 0:06 3 full Andersonville, Georgia: Cotton, Clay, and Reinvention https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia/ Photo credit Dsdugan, CC0. Before and after the war, Andersonville's economy rested on agriculture. The dark reddish-brown sandy loams of the region supported cotton as the primary commodity crop, and for a century the town changed little. The transformation came in 1968, when Mulcoa, the Mullite Company o...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-georgia-wp/djsp-andersonville-georgia-cotton-clay-and-reinvention.mp3 0:06 4 full Andersonville, Georgia: A Town That Chose to Remember https://qualla.com/andersonville-georgia/ Photo credit Snooker1953, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1974, long-time mayor Lewis Easterlin and a group of citizens decided to rebuild Andersonville's Main Street to resemble its Civil War-era appearance. The decision was practical, aimed at drawing tourists to a town with few other economic prospects, but it also reflected a com...

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