The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union ... at Auschwitz and Dachau during World War II. Not surprisingly, such conditions brought out the worst ...

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.