Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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During the American Civil War, numerous camps were established to hold prisoners of war from both sides.

Of these, the most notorious was Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville Prison.

Andersonville, as with all prisons in the conflict, were some of the first dedicated prisoner of war facilities in history, and in the case of Andersonville, it was one of the worst.

Learn more about Andersonville Prison and what made it so bad on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.




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