Andersonville Research Paper

Andersonville also was known, as Camp Sumter is one of the national historic sites in Georgia that was constructed to act as a memorial to all the American prisoners captured during the civil war. According to the historical research, the building of the site began some months before the US civil war ended in the year 1864. The purpose of this structure was mainly to hold the prisoners who would be captured by the Confederate soldiers (Cangemi, Joseph, and Cash, 26). As the number of the prisoners in Richmond were continuously increasing, the federal officials realized that they needed to relocate the prisoners to a more secure place with better food provisions. Thus, they chose Andersonville in Georgia as their ideal site for the military prison construction
Concerning the structure, the campsite was bounded by the chopped pine of logs that had different heights that varied from 15 feet to 17 feet. Besides the prisons had only two entrances situated at the western side of the camp as well as sentry boxes that stood at the intervals of about 90 foot alongside the top of the fence. The prison camp had a deadline area of about 19 feet erected …show more content…
The historic site is located in the southwest part of the Georgia state. The approximate distances of the park from the northeast of the Americus is about 12 mile while in the south of Montezuma it is about 10 miles on GA-49. In my trip to the site, I followed 1-75 south to the exit 135 of Perry from the Northside (Averill, James, 36). I then moved to the southwest on a GA- of 224 from the Montezuma interstate. This was approximately 20 miles from the area. Moving out of Montezuma I turned right on a GA of 26 and followed the GA-49 intersection. From the intersection, I move towards the south, which was about 6 miles to the Andersonville. On reaching the entrances of the park was on the left side of the