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All Out Glory

ANDERSONVILLE POSSIBLE FORT BENNING
Andersonville, site of Camp Sumter, a ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
prisoner of war (POW) camp that is now • Riverside
Andersonville National Historic Site, is about Built in 1909, Riverside is on the National
one hour’s drive southeast of Columbus. Register of Historic Places.
This National Park site preserves the place • POW/MIA Monument
where 45,000 Union soldiers were held • International WHINSEC
prisoner and 13,000 died. Includes the Originally served as the U.S. Army Infantry
National Prisoner of War Museum. Park/ School and Fort Benning Headquarters.
Museum entry is free. (outside only) • Doughboy Stadium
496 Cemetery Rd., Andersonville, GA 31711 Built by U.S. Army Infantrymen as a
229.924.0343 • nps.gov/ande memorial to lost comrades of World War I.
• Historic Cuartels
Designed and constructed in the 1920s,
this building appeared in the 1941 edition
“...heartbreaking but illuminating.”
of Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the world’s
FORT BENNING, MANEUVER longest continuous porch
CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Fort Benning has served as the Home of For access, please stop by the
the Infantry since 1918, transforming into Fort Benning Visitors Center at the
Main Gate to obtain a pass.
the Maneuver Center of Excellence in 2005.

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