Veterans Serving Christ

Andersonville National Cemetery

The cemetery began as the final resting place for those who perished while being held as POWs at Camp Sumter. It is now a National Cemetery, connecting the past to the present by continuing to serve as a honored burial place for modern-day veterans.

Sixty years after the Minnesota monument was erected in 1916, the last state monument to be place in the park was dedicated. Governor Jimmy Carter, who had worked toward's Andersonville's inclusion in the National Park System, encouraged the State of Georgia to place a monument at the park.

Dedicated on Memorial Day 1976, the Georgia Monument serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war.

Clara Barton Monument

Clara Barton was instrumental in the successful effort to identify the graves of most of the dead at Andersonville and the establishment of the Andersonville National Cemetery.

This monument is a tribute to these efforts in particular and to her many services to the soldiers in general.

It was created in 1914 under the direction of the Women's Relief Corps and was dedicated on Memorial Day 30 May 1915. It is located on the prison site near the North Deadline and about 105 feet east of the west wall.

Andersonville Prison

 (Camp Sumter)

Camp Sumter, commonly called Andersonville, was one of the largest military prisons established by the Confederacy during the Civil War. In existence for 14 months, over 45,000 Union soldiers were confined at the prison. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, and exposure to the elements. The largest number held in the 26½-acre stockade at any one time was more than 32,000, during August of 1864. Today the beauty of the prison site belies the suffering that once took place inside the stockade.
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