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TWELVE WRITERS UNMASK VICTORIAN ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE

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All around Andersonville are these markers, to let you know where the stockade line were.  This is at the top of the hill.

This is a monument at the top of the hill.  These are the few trees that inside the stockade area.  There wouldn’t have been any at the time—they’d have been used for firewood.

These are replications of the lean-to’s the men build to keep off the relentless sun and the spring rains.  Notice the rail in the back.  This was the deadline—if a man crossed it he was shot.

Another lean-to.  This was one of the better looking ones.  Man men were left to the elements without any form of shelter.

These are just some of the graves.  There were so many I couldn’t get them all in the picture.

Although there was a stream running through the prison, it was quickly polluted, thus clean water was scarce at Andersonville.  On August 14, 1864, a sudden thunderstorm poured fresh water over the men quite possibly saving lives.  This was built as a commemoration.

                                       Andersonville Prison Historic Site