We spent a couple of days in Unadillo, GA where we visited the site of the Andersonville prison that was in use during the last 14 months of the civil war.  They held over 35,000 prisoners in an area 4 acres big – that’s maybe the size of most Walmart parking lots!!  The men held there were treated very poorly and many died of disease and malnutrition.  When you consider that the residents of the south were also starving to death and dying of disease during the final months of the civil war, it puts the situation at the prison in a different light.

They built the national POW museum on the grounds of the Andersonville prison which was very interesting as well.  They had exhibits and artifacts as well as several video interviews with ex-P.O.W.s who talked about their experiences in WWI, WWII, the Korean and Vietnam police actions and also more recent actions in the middle east.

Here are some pictures we took: