Andersonville

Andersonville is one of the most notorious confederate war prisons, they are known for giving captured soldiers bad and little food, poor shelter, and no sanitation. The prison was opened in February of 1864 and covered 16.5 acres of land, the director of this prison camp was Henry Wirz who guided all the prison affairs. Through out the entire time Andersonville was a prison it was constantly low on food supply, each prisoner was given only small rations so that they could feed every one, more than 14,000 prisoners died of malnutrition, along with poor food conditions they had polluted water filled with dirt, grim rotten food, disease, and human waste. Thanks to the poor water and food conditions many of the soldiers starved or died of infection, also many died in fights with other captured soldiers over stuff to prevent these deaths such as food, or a clean water source. When Sherman went on his March to the Sea he captured Andersonville and what he and his men saw shocked them and every person who saw them after the war, the soldiers who were in the camp were bone thin and sickly and they look as though they were living skeletons. After the war Henry Wirz was put in a war trial, convicted, and sentenced to death, he was the only person from the war to be sentenced to death for war crimes.