: After the war, the camp's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was tried and executed for war crimes.
: MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Andersonville , provides a searing, well-researched account of life inside the stockade. 2. Andersonville Neighborhood (Chicago, IL)
Located in Georgia, Andersonville was the most notorious Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.
Because the name "Andersonville" refers to two very different places, I've broken this down into the historic and the modern Chicago neighborhood . 1. Andersonville Civil War Prison (Camp Sumter)