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Replica of Camp Sumter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia. Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia. Replica of a gate at Camp Sumter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia. Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia, colour lithograph, 1890.
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Replica of Camp Sumter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia.
Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia.
Replica of a gate at Camp Sumter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia.
Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia, colour lithograph, 1890.
Learn how prisoners of war were treated during the American Civil War
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