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Site of memory · The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Andersonville
1864–65 — Nearly 13,000 Union prisoners die of starvation, exposure and disease in the open stockade of Camp Sumter — the deadliest ground of the war. A site of memory, not of battle.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — Hard War in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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