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The South Gate marker marks where the gates of the Southern entrance once stood. Because the prisoners were pouring into Andersonville more and more, the stockade was expanded into a southern side, given a new gate, the Southern Gate.

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The statue says:
 
Lizabeth A. Turner
Fast National President
Woman's Relief Corps
Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Life Chairman
Andersonville Prison Board
Died at Andersonville
April 27, 1887
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Erected by the Woman's Relif Corps.
To memorialize her work in hallowing these grounds.
 

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This statue says:
 
In commemoration of the untiring devotion of Clara Barton.
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She organized and administered effiecient measures for the relief of our soldiers in the field and aided in the great work of preserving the names of more than twelve thousand of the brave men who died here.
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Erected by the Woman's Relief Corps
 

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This statue says:
 
In memoriam
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Erected by the state of Michigan to her soliders and sailors who were imprisoned on these grounds.

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This Statue Says:
 
To her loyal sons
who died in here Camp Sumter
from March 1864
to April 1865
This monument is dedicated.
 
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Ohio

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This Statue Says:
 
This memorial erected in 1934. By the National Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary in the Grand Army of the Republic, as a tribute to the heroism of the sons of the following states who are buried in Andersonville National Cemetary.
 
                                              Number of Dead
 
Delaware                                  39
Kansas                                      4
Kentucky                                417
Maryland                                178
Missouri                                 104
New Hampshire                      144
Vermont                                 244
West Virginia                         256
 

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This Statue Says:
 
Resolves 1900
Chapter 77
 
Approved May 28,
 
W. Murray Crane, Govenor
Commission:
 
Charles C. Davis
Thaddeus H. Newcomb
Francis C. Curtis
Levi G. McKnight
Everett S. Horton

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