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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Example Sentences

The 45,000 captured Union soldiers sent to Andersonville by rail required nearly 100 trains and 1,000 boxcars—about one-fifth the entire number at the Confederacy’s command—along with firewood and manpower to fuel, operate and guard the trains.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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

Then we looked for neighborhoods we wanted to live in and had planned to move to, like Edgewater, Andersonville and Rogers Park, which is in the southern part of the district that was planned to do to happen this year, way before I even thought about running for Congress.

From Salon

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

From BBC

He wrote three historical novels with Daniel Lenihan, “Wake of the Perdido Star,” “Justice for None” and “Escape From Andersonville.”

From Los Angeles Times