This is a photo of a Union soldier in 1865 who survived the Andersonville Prison Camp, a Confederate led prisoner of war camp during the final 14 months of the American Civil War. The site was commanded by Captain Henry Wirz, who was tried and executed after the war for war crimes. It was overcrowded to four times its capacity, with an inadequate water supply, inadequate food rations, and unsanitary conditions. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at the camp during the war, nearly 1

First Union Prisoners Arrive at Andersonville - February 24, 1864