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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

Luther H. Story’s remains will be buried on the May 29 holiday at Andersonville National Cemetery near his hometown of Americus, Georgia, the Army said in a statement Friday.

From Washington Times • May 19, 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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