Union soldier Robert Sneden arrived at Andersonville in February 1864. Soon the sixteen and a half acres were crammed with 33,000 Union prisoners. Sneden sketched this scene of a man being shot by a guard while trying to take part of a fence (the "dead line" that prisoners could not cross) for firewood. More than 13,000 prisoners perished at Andersonville. © 1996, Lora Robbins Collection of Virginia Art, Virginia Historical Society.