Camp Sumter (Andersonville)

Although Antietam and Gettysburg have reputations as the “bloodiest battles of the Civil War,” it was the Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia that proved most lethal.  Although the camp only operated from February of 1864 to May of 1865, the ...

Sanderson Camp Historical Marker

This site was used by both Union and Confederate soldiers as a camp during the campaign of 1864. The camp was used as a Confederate supply depot but it was abandoned on February 9, 1864.

From the 9th to the 13th, ...

Camp Anderson

Camp established by Union Army to train and drill troops and as a place of rendezvous. In October 1861, Col. S. S. Stanton, 25th Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, was ordered to capture the encampment. He marched his regiment into the ...

Camp at Sanderson

This site was used by both Union and Confederate soldiers as a camp during the campaign of 1864. The camp was used as a Confederate supply depot but it was abandoned on February 9, 1864. From the 9th to the ...

Camp Anderson

One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments.

Marker is at the ...