Photo Inset: The guards -- mostly old men and young boys from the Georgia Reserve Corps -- were reluctant witnesses to the misery at Andersonville. More seasoned troops were sent to stop Sherman's drive toward Atlanta. Inset at Right: Local townspeople sometimes came to gawk at the prisoners.

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