The New Student's Reference Work/Andersonville

An'dersonville, a village in Sumter County,, noted as the site of a Confederate military prison during the Civil War. Here 12,296 Federal prisoners died in fourteen months, largely the result of exposure and lack of food and sanitation. The superintendent, Henry Wirz, was tried by a military court, found guilty of cruelty to prisoners, and hanged November 10, 1865.