Andersonville was a Confederate prison in Georgia during the Civil War. The prisoners were poorly fed and they all looked forward to ration time. Many men died in the prison and were taken out on wagons. The prisoners built "shebangs" or shelters out of anything possible such as cloth, mud, tree limbs, and brush. Several of the prisoners also realized that there was no soap available to wash their clothes and used sand as a substitute. The prison conditions were rough and very uncomfortable. On April 9th, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse although the war didn't officially end until September 20th, 1866. Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens ended up getting captured and imprisoned. Davis later returned to and spent the rest of his life in Louisiana. Stephens was later elected to the U.S. House of 1873 and became the Governor of Georgia in 1882.
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