Qualla: Andersonville Prison https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison 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-prison-wp/south-side-indiana-190.jpg Qualla: Andersonville Prison https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison Andersonville Prison: Introduction https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Dsdugan, CC0. "Can this be hell?" The words came from Sergeant Robert H. Kellogg of the 16th Connecticut Volunteers as he stepped through the stockade gates on May 2, 1864. Before him stood what had once been men -- walking skeletons covered in filth, crammed into a space barely larger than a small farm field. In the center of the pen, a swamp of human waste sent up a stench so thick it could be tasted. This was Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp carved from the pine woods of southwestern Georgia. In the fourteen months it operated, from February 1864 to April 1865, Andersonville would become the deadliest ground of the entire Civil War -- a place where nearly 13,000 men died not from bullets, but from scurvy, dysentery, and the slow agony of starvation.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-prison-wp/djsp-andersonville-prison-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Andersonville Prison: A Pen of Pine and Misery https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0. The prison rose from the red Georgia clay as a rectangular stockade of rough-hewn logs, originally enclosing about sixteen acres. By the summer of 1864, it had been enlarged, but the expansion could not keep pace with the flood of prisoners. At its peak, 45,000 Union soldiers wer...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-prison-wp/djsp-andersonville-prison-a-pen-of-pine-and-misery.mp3 0:06 2 full Andersonville Prison: Dying by Degrees https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Dsdugan, CC0. Food was the cruelest scarcity. By 1864, the Confederacy itself was starving, and prisoners received even less than their guards: poorly milled cornflour, often impossible to cook because the men had no utensils and were allowed almost no firewood from the surrounding forest. Scu...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-prison-wp/djsp-andersonville-prison-dying-by-degrees.mp3 0:06 3 full Andersonville Prison: Order Among the Damned https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Dsdugan, CC0. Without law enforcement or any system of protection, Andersonville became something close to a primitive society. A gang calling themselves the Raiders terrorized fellow inmates with clubs, stealing food, money, and clothing -- killing those who resisted. In response, a prisoner ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-prison-wp/djsp-andersonville-prison-order-among-the-damned.mp3 0:06 4 full Andersonville Prison: The Secret List https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Dsdugan, CC0. Young Union prisoner Dorence Atwater was assigned to record the names and numbers of the dead for Confederate authorities. Suspecting that the federal government would never see the official tally, Atwater sat beside commandant Henry Wirz and secretly copied every entry onto his ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/s/p/andersonville-prison-wp/djsp-andersonville-prison-the-secret-list.mp3 0:06 5 full Andersonville Prison: Sacred Ground https://qualla.com/andersonville-prison/ Photo credit Bubba73 (talk), Jud McCranie, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today the site is the Andersonville National Historic Site, home to the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum. The cemetery holds 13,714 graves, 921 of them marked "unknown." Double rows of white posts trace the outline of Camp Sumter across the ...

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