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Preferred term
Andersonville
Definition
- Camp Sumter, or Andersonville as it was commonly known, was one of the largest prisoner-of-war camps of the Civil War. The Confederate prison remained open for 16 months, receiving a total of almost 43,000 Union prisoners—12,912 of whom died within its gates. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Andersonville]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Andersonville
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