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The scandalously overcrowded camp at Andersonville in Georgia.

The starvation was so bad that the Union prisoners formed rival gangs and there was murder and cannibalism.

The commandant of the camp was the only Confederate hanged after the war, not counting the Surratt gang who plotted Lincoln's assassination.

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