The Georgia Monument in Andersonville National Cemetery, sculpted by William J. Thompson, honors all American prisoners of war. Its location at Andersonville is particularly valid – it was here in 1864 and 1865 that 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Nearly 30 per cent of them died from disease, malnutrition, and exposure. It is appropriate to express the grim nature of this place, and the emotional intensity of this sculpture, in the black and white medium.