Andersonville Prison Cemetery

Andersonville National Cemetery was established on July 26, 1865, to receive the dead of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prison where more than 45,000 Union soldiers were held over 14 months and nearly 13,000 died of disease, exposure, and starvation. Camp commander Captain Henry Wirz was tried and hanged for war crimes on November 10, 1865 — the only Confederate officer executed for wartime conduct. Visitors report seeing Wirz's ghost pacing the road into the old prison grounds and the stockade itself, looking anguished, along with Union soldiers glimpsed walking through the surrounding woods and fields and cries of agony carried across the grounds as darkness falls.