The Confederacy could lead to driving a large amount of prisoners numbers of miles, but could not handle to feed and house the prisoners.
Camp Sumter or Andersonville, as it was acknowledged frequently, held more prisoners at whatever inflicted time than any of the different Confederate military guardhouses. The prison pen was enclosed by the security of felled pine trunks which ranged in altitude from 15 to 17 feet. The building was lengthened in late June 1864 to incorporate 261/2 acres. Sentry cases classified as “pigeon roosts” by the respondents stood at 90-foot interludes along with the cover of the enclosure and there were two opportunities on the west side. Inside, roughly 19 feet from the outside, was the “deadline,” which detainees were restrained to cross.