The first prisoners began arriving at Camp Sumter near Andersonville, Georgia, with the stockade not quite complete. Over the following months hundreds of Union prisoners arrived daily until the planned 10,000 capacity had reached more than 32,000. In September 1864, Confederates, fearing Sherman's advance, began moving prisoners to South Carolina. The camp did not close till May 1865, however. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Alejandro M. de Quesada, A History of Georgia Forts: Georgia's Lonely Outposts (Charleston, S.C: The History Press, 2011), 71-72.
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