- Date:
- 1864
- Original Format:
- Cabinet Card
- Item#:
- MES13363
- Photographer:
- A. J. Riddle
Andersonville Prison
This photograph taken from the stockade provides a view of the north end of the Confederate prison. The trough in the foreground was used as a toilet. Opened in 1864, by July of that year Andersonville held 32,000 prisoners within an enclosure of just sixteen and a half acres. By war's end it had 12,912 graves.