Andersonville Prison

Show Notes

Tourist Information:

Andersonville National Historic Site                                 496 Cemetery Road                                              Andersonville, GA 31711                                                      Park grounds open daily 8am-5pm                      Admission is free                                                                     One-hour audio driving tours are free and available for check-out at the museum information desk between 9:30am and 3:15pm daily.                                                    Click here for more tour information 

Andersonville National Cemetery                                      406 Cemetery Road                                           Andersonville, GA 31711                                            Cemetery is open daily 8am-5pm                        Admission is free                                                                       *THIS IS AN ACTIVE CEMETERY*                                              Review cemetery rules here

The National Prisoner of War Museum                            760 POW Road                                                      Andersonville, GA 31711                                              Museum is open daily 9:30am-4:30pm             Admission is free

For park maps of the entire Andersonville site, click here 

Further Reading

Andersonville                                                                                By: Mackinlay Kantor                                                     (Penguin Publishing Group, 2016)                         Purchase here 

John Ransom’s Civil War Diary: Notes from Inside Andersonville, the Civil War's Most Notorious Prison By: John Ransom                                                                (Dover Publications, 2016)                                        Purchase here