The South Georgia Family

 Yesterday, for one last trip before school begins on July 30th, we visited Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, Georgia. I hadn't ever considered how close this was to us but looking for something to do, we decided to go there on a total whim. Eddie even took off work for the afternoon because he wanted to go as well. Not knowing much about it before we headed there, I honestly expected it to be a Civil War museum. We did do a little reading about it on the way up to learn what we might see. If you're unfamiliar, Andersonville Prison was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. It's now a National Historic Site and a cemetery and is a beautiful area! The prison itself, when it was active, was extremely overcrowded with inadequate water and food and was terribly unsanitary. Of the 45,000 Union soldiers held there, around 13,000 died. A few things to note if you visit with your family. First, there's a museum at the site that is about Prisoners of War.