ANDERSONVILLE, a village of Sumter county, Georgia, U.S.A., on the Central of Georgia railway, about 60m. S.W. of Macon. The population in 1930 was 231. From Nov. 1863 until the close of the Civil War a Confederate military prison was main tained in an open stockade of 26-lac. near the village. The suffer ings of the prisoners—from congestion, insufficient food, exposure, pollution of the water supply, and disease—were terrible. Of the prisoners received during the war, about 13,000 died. After the war the superintendent, Henry Wirz, was tried by a court-martial and hanged (Nov. Io, 1865). The prisoners' burial ground was made a national cemetery. It contains 13,737 graves, of which 1,040 are marked "unknown." There is an impartial account of the Andersonville prison in James F. Rhodes, History of the United States (19o4), vol. v. The partisan accounts are numerous; see, for instance, A. C. Hamlin, Martyria; or, Andersonville Prison (Boston, 1866) ; and R. R. Stevenson, The Southern Side; or Andersonville Prison (Baltimore, 1876).