Andersonville: 26 Acres of Civil War Hell | History Traveler Episode 87

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  @TheHistoryUnderground · 6 years ago · pinned

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  @myownidenity4955 · 5 years ago

  One of those 45 thousand men was my great great great grandfather. &nbsp;He survived. He suffered from dysentery and was starving but managed a full recovery and had a bunch of kids.

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  @Perihoka · 4 years ago

  My husband’s great great grandfather escaped from Andersonville with the help of a slave named Lee. Since then every other generation names their first son, James Lee (Gilmore).

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  @theangrymob9167 · 6 years ago

  “With charity to all and malice toward none.” <br><br>Words we would all do well to remember.

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  @hawksipracing4357 · 3 years ago (edited)

  My Great great uncle died here after being captured only weeks from arrival. &nbsp;His father tried to keep him from enlisting by making some sort of deal but he went anyway against his wishes. &nbsp;His letters before he died always ended with &quot;kiss the babies for me&quot;. Referring to his nieces and nephews. &nbsp;I visited to pay my respects at the mass grave he was buried in. &nbsp;God bless Lamotte Hill. &nbsp;His later relative would become a WWII Naval hero and Superintendent of Annapolis. &nbsp;Lamotte gave his all and unknowingly sparked a long-standing tradition and pride of combat service by our family.

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  @adaynasmile · 5 years ago

  This is the kind of history that needs to be taught to our country. Thank you for the education and tour.

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  @midwaymonster30 · 6 years ago

  It&apos;s incredible the things we&apos;ll do to our own brothers and sisters. &nbsp;We never learn from our mistakes.

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  @johnreinburg859 · 6 years ago

  Sad, what man can do to another man.

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  @cynthiasooy2327 · 3 years ago

  My 3rd great grandfather, James Ira Gillespie, was taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga and then held at Andersonville. He survived, having lost an eye, and came home to Kentucky to conceive his last child of 13 total, my 2nd great grandmother 😊

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  @beach3girl459 · 6 years ago

  Seems it may have been preferable to die in battle...<br>THIS is why we need to preserve monuments and reminders of what war can do.

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  @gordonmiller4439 · 6 years ago (edited)

  My Great-great uncle died in that hell hole on 2 August 1864. &nbsp;Rest easy, sir! &nbsp;Grave marker number 4567 in the Andersonville National Cemetery.

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  @SomeGuyNamedSteve · 5 years ago

  I visited Andersonville several years ago in the July and it was 107 degrees, no breeze to speak of and the sky was nearly cloudless. This really cemented for me the savage conditions the prisoners endured.

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