Can you imagine what civil war prisoners went through? Learning about the civil war in school always told us that Andersonville was the worst of the prison camps. After seeing the actual site and learning more about Andersonville I still don’t know exactly what these soldiers went through but I know that it had to have been a horrible experience for them. If they survived.
In 1864 a very sad and horrible event happened in Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter. 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned. This was four times the capacity of what it should have been! Of those 45,000 nearly 13,000 died from scurvy, dysentery, or diarrhea. 
Andersonville was commanded by Major Henry Wirz. Wirz was later tried and executed for war crimes.
Providence Spring is a fresh water spring that was formed in 1864 and it is still there. The prisoners believed that the spring was formed by divine intervention. The park rangers told us that there was a storm and lightning struck the ground forming the spring. The divine intervention story could work too though!
The spring from the prison walls.
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