(7-01) Museum Display: The original lock, key and hinge from the South Gate of the Andersonville stockade are reminders of the brute force it took to keep thousands of trained soldiers in captivity. Confederate guards kept watch over the compound from the 52 towers surrounding the prison stockade. The dead line, about 19 feet within the walls, was a boundary no man could cross without being shot at by a guard

(7-01) Museum Display: Original post from the Andersonville stockade, 1864

(7-01) Museum Display: (Left) Jacob F. Goodbread, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, was drafted into Company B, 147th New York Infantry, in August 1863. He was captured at the Wilderness and died in Andersonville in August 1864. (Right) Samuel George Fletcher, a private in Company D, 5th New York Artillery, was captured at Piedmont, Virginia in June 1864. He survived his imprisonment at Andersonville and returned for the dedication of the New York monument there in 1916