Andersonville National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), Andersonville National Historic Site, National Park Service
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., John Milner Associates, Inc., Sargent L. 2015. Andersonville National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), Andersonville National Historic Site, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service
Andersonville National Historic Site protects, interprets, and commemorates the site of Camp Sumter (Andersonville Prison), where approximately 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned and nearly 13,000 died of disease and malnutrition between February 1864 and May 1865 (Figure 1). The park also encompasses Andersonville National Cemetery, a federallyestablished burial ground designed to honor Union Civil War soldiers, as well as veterans of other American military engagements (Figure 2). The National Park Service administers the national historic site as a unit of the National Park System, and manages it for the benefit of current and future generations. Andersonville National Historic Site exhibits numerous landscape features that connect visitors with the historic origins and operations of the prison and the national cemetery, as well as subsequent efforts to conserve and commemorate historic events, such as the remains of earthworks constructed to guard and defend the prison, sites of prisoner-excavated wells within the prison boundaries, and monuments and memorials. Today, the park also more broadly commemorates and interprets the lives of Americans who have suffered in prisoner of war camps throughout the world through the National Prisoner of War Museum, built at Andersonville in 1998. Establishment of the museum met the goals of the park’s 1970 federal enabling legislation that indicated the park was “to provide an understanding of the overall prisoner of war story of the Civil War, to interpret the role of prisoner of war camps in history, to commemorate the sacrifice of Americans who lost their lives in such camps, and to preserve the monuments located therein...”
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.; John Milner Associates, Inc.; Sargent, Liz
- Date of Issue
- 2015-06
- Publisher
- NPS Southeast Regional Office
- Units
- ANDE
- Keywords
- American Civil War, Andersonville, Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, Camp Sumter, Cultural Landscape, Cultural Landscape Report, Georgia, Prisoners of War, Union Soldiers
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 550146: Andersonville Memorial Landscape