Wednesday Apr 18, 2007

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Nico is now with his mother for at least a month. I feel like Dr. Evil without Mini Me. frown

Here is the last good pic we took together before we parted ways:

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I went to visit the Andersonville National Park in southern Georgia yesterday and snapped a few photos. Hope you like them.

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Park map:



Wisconsin monument:





Rhode Island





The Deadline:





Remnants of a tunnel:



The North Gate (recreation):







From inside the POW area:



Providence Spring (read more about it here http://www.bivouacbooks.com/bbv5i2s2.htm ):















A view of the North Gate and Providence Spring monument from the parapet of Fort Star:



The stream which fed the prison. The stockade walls severely cut the natural water flow into the prison so the water quickly became stagnant.



The 'Sinks' where the stream feeding the prison left the walls.





Recreation of the north east corner of the stockade walls and prisoner "housing":










Over 40,000 Union POW's were held here by the Confederates in the last years of the war. Over 13,000 of them died in captivity.

Historic photos from 1864:

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A "survivor:"

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A link to a couple first hand accounts of life in the prison:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWandersonville.htm

Lest we forget.


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helly:
interesting!!!
trixxx:
so whatcha been doin?

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