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Next to the stockade, this is where a lot of the POW camp casualties ended up.
Florence National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Florence, South Carolina. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 24.9 acres (10.1 ha), and as of 2021, had over 12,000 interments.
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Between 1864 and 1865, about 16,000 Union soldiers were held captive here, in abysmal conditions that consummated in the deaths of about 2,800 of these men. The site is not as developed as Andersonville State Historic Park is in Georgia today, but it still offers opportunity for a reflective mood.
Art and local history. Antiques, paintings, Civil War, South West American Indian exhibits and more.