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Andersonville National Historic Site

10/2/1997 Continued east to Andersonville to the NHS. Saw a good film in the visitor center. Stopped at the National Cemetery; row after row of the about 13,000 buried here that died at Andersonville POW camp. Drove the perimeter of the camp, stopping to walk around seeing the “dead line”, a reconstructed section of the 20 foot high fence, monuments, wells and escape tunnels, etc. Hard to believe 30,000 men were here.

The park sign

Part of the massive fence

A typical "camp"

The National Cemetery ...

... with gravestones standing like soldiers