Andersonville ✧

: MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Andersonville , provides a searing, well-researched account of life inside the stockade. 2. Andersonville Neighborhood (Chicago, IL)

Located in Georgia, Andersonville was the most notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Andersonville

: A literal line was drawn inside the prison stockade. Any prisoner who touched or crossed it was immediately shot by guards. : A literal line was drawn inside the prison stockade

: Designed for 10,000 men, it eventually held over 45,000 in a space of roughly 27 acres. Conditions were inhumane; nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died there from malnutrition, exposure, and disease like scurvy and dysentery. Conditions were inhumane; nearly 13,000 Union soldiers died

Because the name "Andersonville" refers to two very different places, I've broken this down into the historic and the modern Chicago neighborhood . 1. Andersonville Civil War Prison (Camp Sumter)

: After the war, the camp's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was tried and executed for war crimes.