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Andersonville

American  
[an-der-suhn-vil] / ˈæn dər sənˌvɪl /

noun

  1. a village in SW Georgia: site of a Confederate military prison.


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“Figuring out what I want to stock and when to order it has suddenly become a lot more stressful,” Hannah Wilson, owner of the Dropped Stitch in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, told Slate.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2025

Later, and possibly coincidentally, Hackman named one of his novels Escape from Andersonville.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2025

In 1970, you starred as another prosecutor in the Civil War courtroom drama “The Andersonville Trial” for PBS, sort of a jump back to live TV.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2024

Previously buried as an unknown soldier at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Story was reinterred at Andersonville National Cemetery after the military identified his remains, using DNA, dental and anthropological analyses.

From Seattle Times May 29, 2023

She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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