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Since reading this book would you compare Douglas to the Confederate prison in Richmond.Could it match to the horrors of Andersonville.?The victors interpet events in ways to protect those responsible.Why does this and other Union POW camps not receive the same overview as Confederate POW . Edited; unrelated topics
Probably for two reasons--first, Andersonville was the subject of a book (Pulitzer prize) and very popular film. I read it in high school; saw that (not from the book film) when it came out on TV (1996) You could say it captured the national imagination the way Killer Angels and the film Gettysburg did. Second, once the book came out, the camp really became a national "must see" for CW buffs and tourists--so there's that. Douglas isn't even there any longer! I honestly did not know about it until I stumbled across the names of my grandmother's uncles who died there and started researching. Once I did, I started reading everything I could find. Look on Amazon and see how many books there are on Andersonville (a result, again, of a book in 1955 and the Pulitzer in 1956). I'd say Douglas is catching up, but it was so shrouded in mystery (and isn't an NPS researched site), it just doesn't capture the imagination the way the NPS Andersonville and the film did. Does this make any sense?