Birds Eye View of Andersonville Prison Ga.

This aerial view depicts Camp Sumter (Andersonville), the largest Confederate prisoner-of-war camp, which operated for fourteen months during the Civil War. The engraving shows the 26.5-acre compound packed densely with thousands of tents housing Union captives. Constructed without adequate shelter, sanitation, or provisions, the camp became a site of mass mortality—approximately 13,000 prisoners died from disease, exposure, and starvation. Created the year after the war's end, this print served as historical documentation of one of the conflict's most lethal installations, rendering the scale and conditions of captivity visible to a Northern audience through the bird's-eye perspective common to nineteenth-century topographical and military illustrations.