The dramatic story of the legendary Confederate prisoner of war camp and the Union soldiers who lived and died there is the basis of this extraordinary film. ANDERSONVILLE was the crude, open-air prison stockade where Union captives waited out the Civil War, exposed to the elements, overcrowding and staggering deprivation. In 1864 and 1865, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned in Andersonville, of whom almost 13,000 died - more than 100 a day during that summer. David W. Rintels’ story, as seen through the eyes of young soldier Josiah Day Jarrod (Emick), is an extraordinary tale of friendship, survival and the triumph of hope.