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[Republican Blues]

how big is andersonville?? do they let you go at night? wow do you have photos? that would be cool to see.

Andersonville NHS covers the Stockade area, Star fort, Cemetery, and the National POW Museum. It covers about 514 acres. and two sections of wall have been rebuilt, the northeast corner where they also have reconsturctions of the crude shelters that were built by the prisoners, and the North Gate. They do NOT allow people in at night, except during special events, such as the march LH program when we camp there. We have photos of the events, but none that have been taken at night... Here is one taken during one of the night museum events.

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[FarawayFriend]

Has anybody read the novel "Andersonville" by MacKinley Kantor? I have just read some reviews at amazon and people say before "Killer Angels" this was the book to read about the Civil War and it did also win the Pulitzer Price

 

[Custers Luck]

Andersonville NHS covers the Stockade area, Star fort, Cemetery, and the National POW Museum. It covers about 514 acres. and two sections of wall have been rebuilt, the northeast corner where they also have reconsturctions of the crude shelters that were built by the prisoners, and the North Gate. They do NOT allow people in at night, except during special events, such as the march LH program when we camp there. We have photos of the events, but none that have been taken at night... Here is one taken during one of the night museum events.

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thank you, thank you, thank you, you are so lucky, that must have been a lasting experience.

 

[kealbo54]

Has anybody read the novel "Andersonville" by MacKinley Kantor? I have just read some reviews at amazon and people say before "Killer Angels" this was the book to read about the Civil War and it did also win the Pulitzer Price

Yes I read it many years ago and it deserved all the praise it got!if you find it get it!

 

[Republican Blues]

thank you, thank you, thank you, you are so lucky, that must have been a lasting experience.

It is... every year. Really looking forward to march getting here!!!

 

[ErnieMac]

Has anybody read the novel "Andersonville" by MacKinley Kantor? I have just read some reviews at amazon and people say before "Killer Angels" this was the book to read about the Civil War and it did also win the Pulitzer Price

Kantor's was the first book I read specifically about Andersonville. I found it to be excellent. Consider it to be a historic novel, it was written from memoirs and many of the characters and incidents described are true.

 

[bensearch]

Charles F Emmons

Oh thank you!

 

[Custers Luck]

Oh thank you!

your very welcome glad I could help!!!! I think the last book was in 2012 but you probably found it by now!!.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Kantor's was the first book I read specifically about Andersonville. I found it to be excellent. Consider it to be a historic novel, it was written from memoirs and many of the characters and incidents described are true.

Yes I read it many years ago and it deserved all the praise it got!if you find it get it!

Thank you for that good piece of advice! I have already ordered it. There is a paperback edition still available.

 

[Dave Hull]

what were the castles like ? Ive never been are they really big? what kinda rooms did they have?

Some were damp (one in Ireland had rain water coming into the room from the casement) some were large rooms, some small. The older ones were tough to get into and out of the rooms as the halls and passages were designed to slow advancing enemies. Most were coolish, never warmer than 50ish. The refurbished castles or later construction castles were just like a modern home, with some embellishments, but still cooler than what you would expect find in an area where it never gets very warm.

 

[Custers Luck]

Some were damp (one in Ireland had rain water coming into the room from the casement) some were large rooms, some small. The older ones were tough to get into and out of the rooms as the halls and passages were designed to slow advancing enemies. Most were coolish, never warmer than 50ish. The refurbished castles or later construction castles were just like a modern home, with some embellishments, but still cooler than what you would expect find in an area where it never gets very warm.

thanks Dave , You painted a picture in my head , the hall ways how interesting I always thought that was a movie thing,How amazing to walk back through history that far,maybe some time would you post some pictures??? I think it would be creepy to live in one back then. It must have been awful at night I dont know what they used to light them at night but it must have been smoky or smelly, must have been hard going for a midnight snack.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Stratford Hall has a long reputation for being spooky. (Lee didn't find it so - after all, the spooks were kin! ) It has to do with the design of the main hall staircase. It seems an alarming number of Lee children fell to their deaths from it!

How sad! These steps, below? Or interior steps?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hilton_photos/3472160088/in/photostream/

 

[Republican Blues]

OUtside of Novels.. i really recommend Marvel's Andersonville: The Last Depot. Wonderfully written very balanced and well researched work....

 

[diane]

How sad! These steps, below? Or interior steps?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hilton_photos/3472160088/in/photostream/

It's the interior stairway, inside the entrance. Seems an unusual number of Lee toddlers took a fatal header down them. That's the first I've heard of what happened to Black Horse Harry's child! Most sources I've read say nobody knows for sure and some have darkly hinted of murder. (That would add to the spooks at Stratford Hall!) The baby was the product of what was regarded as incest in those days, Harry having had an affair with his sister-in-law. (Poor Lee - no wonder he had to try to be so perfect! )

 

[kealbo54]

Well,as I said,I went in early December,and the place just gave me a really overallpervasive sense of profound sadness.Palpable,sadness.Even the angels in the fireplace couldnt get rid of it.Creepy sadness.Lonely sound of honking geese as well

 

[diane]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is where Lee's mom almost did Poe's Premature Burial. She passed out and didn't come to, so they started her funeral! Came to in the coffin... Things like this seemed to happen a lot in Virginia, where they often put people into other people's boxes - sometimes the inside of the lid had scratch marks.

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You know, I've always thought there was a kind of a dark side to Lee - now I know why!

 

[mphstteach]

Diane, thanks for the cool insight! That would be an awful way to go

 

[diane]

Diane, thanks for the cool insight! That would be an awful way to go

I believe they used to even rig up a little bell attached to a string so if someone got buried alive they could ring the bell to get unburied. That's where the term 'dead ringer' comes from! George Washington had a fear of that - that's why he wanted to lie in state for three days before they planted him. After that time, without embalming and so on, there would be more proof he was a goner than just not waking up!

 

[kealbo54]

I believe they used to even rig up a little bell attached to a string so if someone got buried alive they could ring the bell to get unburied. That's where the term 'dead ringer' comes from! George Washington had a fear of that - that's why he wanted to lie in state for three days before they planted him. After that time, without embalming and so on, there would be more proof he was a goner than just not waking up!

I dunno,diane,maybe you should be the member of all time!The nuggets of interesting stuff you have stashed away in your brain makes me thing we need a whole sub-forum just titled "dianes stuff"

 

[diane]

I dunno,diane,maybe you should be the member of all time!The nuggets of interesting stuff you have stashed away in your brain makes me thing we need a whole sub-forum just titled "dianes stuff"

Lol! Just have a strange mind that traps useless information and passes essential stuff - like my new cell phone number. (Not that it's a problem - can't get anything anyway!)