Andersonville Prison. Prisoners work on a

Andersonville Prison. Prisoners work on a burial detail in the Andersonville cemetery. Some men are digging a long trench, as others unload and line up the dead for burial. Grave markers were assigned numbers, which were recorded with their names. After the war, Clara Barton would use this information to account for the unknown dead of the US Civil War. In upper left, the graves of the executed Raiders are kept separate from the others

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30-40 Andersonville Confederate Digging Exposure Filth Hunger Lcgr1902 Lcgr2019 Mistreatment Odea Rags Sumter Unsanitary

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