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ANDERSONVILLE, GA --  

The Andersonville National Historic Site held their annual Civil War Living History event over the weekend.

This site played a huge role during the Civil War; it was a prison to an overwhelming number of Union soldiers. Historians re-enact the day to day lives and struggles of the prisoners in hopes of teaching others all about this point in history.

Chris Barr, one of the park rangers who was playing the role of a prison guard this weekend, says it's important to learn about the events that took place here because he believes if we don't learn about the past, we could be doomed to repeat it.

Another participant in the re-enactment William Summe, is a direct descendant of George Wiser, who was a volunteer soldier from New Jersey in the Civil War and was actually at Andersonville Prison for a while. Summe says by actually putting himself in his ancestor's shoes, he has really learned what it was like to live and be a prisoner of war during that time.

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