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This is something I havent heard anyone talk of visiting. While most were of temporary nature, Im sure, with the exception of a monument maybe, they are gone. But how about Libby? Is the building still downtown? I am particularly interested if there is any thing at Johnsons Island, since that is in easy reach of here. Just curious to know if anyone has visited such and what they found.
From what I've heard, Johnson's Island is well worth a visit if you are in the neighborhood.
I appreciated Andersonville. Even though little remains of the structures, the land is all there. And visualizing the place is made quite easy.
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I have not been to Andersonville yet. You can read my great grandfather's diary as he was there from June 7 to October 9, 1864. He was also at Libby, Millen, and Florence. www.civilwardiary.net
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"Those who forget to remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.
I have been to Johnston's Island a few times as part of a Confederate honor guard during Confederate Memorial Day.
All that is left there is a statue of a Confederate soldier looking South and headstones of some of the soldiers who died and are buried there.
It is well worth a visit by you as you grieve for the boys who died so far from home and never got the chance to go back.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Thanks yall for the info! Johnsons Is. is now on my to do list! The northern prisons always seemed worse to me...ragged clothes and no shoes in snow and ice just seems particularly brutal....its amazing how as Americans, we were treating each other...the only thing missing was the gas chambers...very sad...I think the saddest aspect of the entire war...
If there is one lesson from history that we should've learned today, but seem to have forgotten recently, is that it is in our interest to treat POWs well. It naturally helps reconciliation after the conflict.
I saw an interesting show in the History Channel about the German POWs in the US who were treated well and how they had good feelings about the US. It was pretty well known that the US would treat its POWs well and it was interesting to note that the Germans were surrendering en masse to US forces, sometimes even fighting for the mere privilege of surrendering West of the Elbe.
If there is one lesson from history that we should've learned today, but seem to have forgotten recently, is that it is in our interest to treat POWs well. It naturally helps reconciliation after the conflict.
I saw an interesting show in the History Channel about the German POWs in the US who were treated well and how they had good feelings about the US. It was pretty well known that the US would treat its POWs well and it was interesting to note that the Germans were surrendering en masse to US forces, sometimes even fighting for the mere privilege of surrendering West of the Elbe.
The Germans treated POWs in WWII better than the Japanese did. For every 100 who died in Japanese prisons only 33 died in German prisons.
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"Those who forget to remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.
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