What Confederate prison camp in Georgia had the official name Camp Sumter?

Andersonville Prison was the Confederate prison camp in Georgia officially named Camp Sumter.

The camp was established near the town of Andersonville in February 1864, as the Confederacy sought a more secure location for Union prisoners of war. Its formal name, Camp Sumter, honored Sumter County, where the prison was located. Prisoners and later historians generally called it Andersonville, after the nearby railroad station and community.

During its fourteen months of operation, the camp held approximately 45,000 Union soldiers. Nearly 13,000 died from disease, malnutrition, exposure, overcrowding, and inadequate sanitation. The stockade originally covered about 16.5 acres and was later enlarged to roughly 26.5 acres as the prisoner population grew dramatically.

The camp’s commandant, Henry Wirz, was tried and executed after the war for conspiracy and murder. Andersonville became one of the most enduring symbols of Civil War prison conditions and is now preserved as Andersonville National Historic Site. Belle Isle, Salisbury, and Libby were also Confederate prisons, but none carried the official name Camp Sumter.