Andersonville National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 32.204392, -84.131929
County: Macon
Record count: 22,421

Ownership: National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior

Directions: The cemetery is located on the east side of the Macon/Sumter county line, with the City of Andersonville on the west side. From Andersonville, take Highway 49 north about 1/2 mile, turn right to enter the cemetery.

Background: Andersonville National Cemetery is located 300 yards north of the prison site established in 1864. The 12,920 men who died at the prison camp are buried in the cemetery. The first burial took place on February 27, 1864, only three days after prisoners first arrived. Graves for the Union prisoners were trenches 3 feet deep and between 100 and 200 feet long.

Following the end of the Civil War, the burying ground for the prison was designated an national cemetery on July 26, 1865. The cemetery is a 27.15 acre site, approximately 300 yards northwest of the prison site.

Since the 1870s approximately 7,000 American servicemen and their families have joined the prisoner burials and made Andersonville National Cemetery their final resting place. Their stories of sacrifice are separated by a hundred years in the history books, but at Andersonville their stories are separated by only a few hundred paces.

Transcriptions

We have 2 transcriptions for this cemetery.

• Unidentified Burials, compiled by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (986 records)
• Veterans Affairs Database, compiled by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (21,435 records)