: 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.
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) 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) : Designed for 10,000 men, it eventually held