I saw this film when it first came out 1996, and for all its flaws it's always had a special place with me - especially among the more romantic / heroic Civil War stories - for telling a story few of us have heard. I've recently watched the film again having just returned from a trip that included a visit to the actual site near Americus, GA. There is nothing of the original camp there except - perhaps fittingly - the cemetery (still active) and the creek which was the source of more miser than relief. Two small sections of the stockade (one with gate) have been re-created and the location of the stockade / dead line has been outlined by white stakes. Read the real history of this camp and the history of the Union equivalent in Elmira, New York. SPOILER: in the cemetery, with its rows upon rows of markers where the dead were buried in trenches shoulder-to-shoulder, are six lone headstones together but apart from the rest of the markers...these are the six Raider ringleaders who were tried and hanged...though buried in ignominy who still got better than they deserved, if you ask me.
Review of Andersonville
