ANDERSONVILLE


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ANDERSONVILLE

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"ANDERSONVILLE" a CivilWarStory Video Minute takes a look behind the stalckade wall inside one of the most brutal and notorious prison camps of the American Civil War.

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ANDERSONVILLE, Civil, War, prisoncamp, georgia, americus, confederate, prison, 13, thousand, deaths, union, soldiers,

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