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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Photos: Misery, poignancy of Andersonville

• I recently traveled to south Georgia and saw the site of Civil War prison, the federal cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum, which has a great film. I strongly recommend a visit. It takes only a few minutes to drive around a camp that at one time held 33,000 crowded, desperate Union POWS. The photo is of a re-created portion of the stockade. Men who went past the "dead line" or the lower wooden rails, were shot dead.
Phil Gast at 7:43 PM
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Fascinated by the Civil War since childhood, I used to terrorize my children by dragging them to battlefields across the South. I am a writer, editor and Web producer.
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