Andersonville, Georgia
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Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 255.
It is located in the southwest part of the state, approximately 60 miles （97 km） southwest of Macon on the Central of Georgia railroad.
During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp, which is now Andersonville National Historic Site.
Andersonville is part of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The hamlet of Anderson was named for John Anderson, a director of the South Western Railroad in 1853 when it was extended from Oglethorpe to Americus.
It was known as Anderson Station until the US post office was established in November 1855.
The government changed the name of the station from "Anderson" to "Andersonville" in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.
During the Civil War, the Confederate army established Camp Sumter at Andersonville to house incoming Union prisoners of war.
The overcrowded Andersonville Prison was notorious for its bad conditions, and nearly 13,000 prisoners died there.
After the war, Henry Wirz was convicted for war crimes related to the command of the camp.
His trial was later regarded as unfair by several groups, and a monument in his honor has been erected in Andersonville by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Monument in Andersonville dedicated to Henry Wirz The town also served as a supply depot during the war period.
It included a post office, a depot, a blacksmith shop and stable, a couple of general stores, two saloons, a school, a Methodist church, and about a dozen houses.
（Ben Dykes, who owned the land on which the prison was built, was both depot agent and postmaster.） Until the establishment of the prison, the area was entirely dependent on agriculture,
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