From Thursday night 6/21/2018- Sunday 6/24/2018,my spouse and I were in Valdosta,GA which is 2 hours south of Andersonville. My spouse doesn't care for Civil War sightseeing but she tolerates mine pretty well with well-placed bribes. More on that in a minute. I left Valdosta at 6am on Friday 6/21/2018. My plan was to get there at 8am when it opened. When I got there,I would only have about 2 hours there. I had to be back in Valdosta around noonish. The price for being gone for 6 hours that morning was an afternoon trip to a nice outlet mall in Valdosta and $400/cash. She didn't ask for that. That was my bribe. Anyhoo...it was a nice drive...interstate highway a good part of the way up there. Here's Civil War Traveler's Companion tip #1. If you're getting close to ANHS and you have to go to the restroom and you see a place but you think there might be someplace better a little ways up the road....there's not. I do not know what I would have done if the bathroom at Andersonville National Cemetery had been locked when I got there. I didn't have a spare set of skivvies or fatigues with me and a big ole mess was about to happen.
Is there any Union POW sights that are National historic sites? Is there not one near Chicago where Confederate soldiers recieved the same treatment or has historians rather overlook these sights due to the prejudice in this arear of CW history in the North.as the South had slaves and the North did not.I visited Andersonville National Historic Site on 6/22/2018 during a trip to southern Georgia. Posted about the trip in this thread that I started in May 2018 looking for some Civil War Traveler's Companion tips from CWT members:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/upcoming-trip-to-southern-georgia.146203/
My life was crazy busy at the time of that trip and it never let up for the rest of 2018. I never got around to posting much about my visit to Andersonville. I wanna do that now.
I don't know.Is there any Union POW sights that are National historic sites? Is there not one near Chicago where Confederate soldiers recieved the same treatment or has historians rather overlook these sights due to the prejudice in this arear of CW history in the North.as the South had slaves and the North did not.
Is there any Union POW sights that are National historic sites? Is there not one near Chicago where Confederate soldiers recieved the same treatment or has historians rather overlook these sights due to the prejudice in this arear of CW history in the North.as the South had slaves and the North did not.
This thread is about @bdtex 's visit to Andersonville. It is not an open discussion on prisons of the Civil War. Can we not just appreciate Bobby's travel report without degenerating into a north/south mud fight?Is there any Union POW sights that are National historic sites? Is there not one near Chicago where Confederate soldiers recieved the same treatment or has historians rather overlook these sights due to the prejudice in this arear of CW history in the North.as the South had slaves and the North did not.
ummm you know that sense of isolation means you can go to bathroom bout anywhere...…...I had read a couple of books about Andersonville before our trip to Georgia. Thought I posted book reviews but I guess I didn't. Both books describe how isolated it was. It still is. That struck me on the drive up there and back. It was in the middle of nowhere during the Civil War and it still is. I didn't have time to go to the town of Andersonville,which is 1.3 miles from ANHS. Other than that, for miles around ANHS,there's only a convenience store here and there. That sense of isolation you get travelling to and from ANHS extends to the grounds itself. At least it did for me. I was there on a summer Friday morning and only saw 2 other visitors there during my visit. There were a few groundskeepers at the Cemetery and the occasional sounds of a weedeater and sounds of birds was about all I heard my entire time there.