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War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor

Andersonville Prison Hospital and Stockade, Felix de la Baume, ca. 1864

Andersonville Prison Hospital and Stockade, Felix de la Baume, ca. 1864

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Freeport Historical Society

Some 12,877 Union troops died at the prison known as Andersonville in a short period of time between February 1864 and the end of the Civil War in April 1865.

John Monroe Dillingham, 20, died in prison in 1864.