Camp Sumter, known as Andersonville, operated for only fourteen months from February 1864 to May 1865 as the Confederate Army's largest prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Located in southwestern Georgia, the prison was hastily constructed using slave labor to relocate Union prisoners from Richmond to a more secure location after the prisoner exchange system collapsed in 1863. The camp was designed to hold 10,000 men but swelled to over 33,000 prisoners by August 1864, creating c