Death & Disease at a Union P.O.W. Camp (Civil War) | History Traveler Episode 108

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  @TheHistoryUnderground · 5 years ago · pinned

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  @CSchnell-lj1io · 5 years ago

  Don’t listen to the haters, you’ll never satisfy them, just do you.

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  @Thurber-er-er · 5 years ago

  That&apos;s a beautiful monument they put up. The men who died were still Americans at the bottom of everything and deserve to be remembered. I had family on both sides of the war (which I didn&apos;t know until recently.) &nbsp;Thanks for visiting these places.

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  @keithmitchell6918 · 5 years ago

  Well said... &nbsp;&quot;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&quot;

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  @RobSambles · 5 years ago

  Very well spoken in the last couple of minutes. Couldn&apos;t agree more.

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  @glendavertner8906 · 5 years ago

  My 2 times Great grandfather, Samuel Chase Woodfin&apos;s brother Moses was taken prisoner of at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was taken to the Union POW Camp at Rock Island, Illinois. <br>After getting my Ancestry DNA, I started finding info on the &quot;Woodfin Boys of Rutherford County&quot;. I Googled the Rock Island POW Camp. It was bad! <br>There was a TV documentary years ago about a Union POW Camp near Chicago. This show described this camp was just as bad as Andersonville. &nbsp;<br>All POW Camps were bad. Thank God Moses survived his imprisonment. I have no idea how his health was when he returned home.<br>Thank you for showing both sides. WAR IS HELL. Continue your good work. <br>Hope you have a blessed, healthy and prosperous New Year. Please stay safe. 🙏🥰👍👌🙏🦅🔔🗽🇺🇸🙏

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  @shawnpatrick3251 · 5 years ago

  Unfortunately you&apos;ll never satisfy everyone. The fact that you&apos;re doing a service to all men who served in the civil war both Union and Confederate and telling stories regardless of what side you were on suggest to me that you&apos;re about the history and not about the side. This video was well done as always.

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  @stevebean1543 · 5 years ago

  Thank you for visiting the site of this prison and remembering the men who died there. I have ancestors who were in both armies. My great-great-grandfather, Wilson Cherry Jr., was a Confederate soldier who died at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, of which no remnants remain today. He is buried in a mass grave at Crown Hill Cemetery. While I am no sympathizer of the Confederate cause, I fear that many in their modern day zeal to right past wrongs will go too far and attempt to obliterate the memory of men like my great-great-grandfather. Every man, regardless of which side he fought for, deserves to have his existence acknowledged at his burial site - and when we do so, it does not necessarily indicate approval of the cause for which he fought. We would do well, as the survivors of Andersonville did at Providence Spring, to remember the words of Abraham Lincoln: &quot;With malice toward none, with charity for all...&quot; <br> <br>A couple of other interesting historical notes about Alton: it was the site of the final Lincoln-Douglas debate on 10/15/1858, and it was the birthplace of jazz legend Miles Davis.

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  @chefcorn124 · 2 years ago

  My 2nd Great Grandfather, James T. Stroud, CSA diedat Alton Prison from Small Pox on June 13th, 1863. I really appreaciate you docmenting this Union prison.

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  @HuntStacheHistory · 5 years ago

  Fantastic video, as always. I really appreciate your mention of the wreaths. It brought to mind one of my favorite quotes from Band of Brothers when Shifty Powers was being interviewed during the &quot;We stand alone together&quot; video.<br> He said in regards to the German soldiers... &quot;We might have had a lot in common. He might’ve liked to fish, you know, he might’ve liked to hunt&quot; <br> &quot;Of course, they were doing what they were supposed to do, and I was doing what I was supposed to do. But under different circumstances, we might have been good friends&quot; - SSG. Darrell &quot;Shifty&quot; Powers

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  @traceyfrommelbourneaustral8649 · 5 years ago

  I remember watching the TV series “The Civil War” about 30 years ago and found it fascinating. Did you know that the Confederate warship, the Shenandoah, sailed into Melbourne in 1865 to recruit men to fight for the South? When I was in secondary school we learnt about it in Australian history.

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  @ryanfischer6550 · 5 years ago

  The one constant of war is that it is never innocent. Atrocities are committed by all actors, because war is at its very core an atrocity. The fact that the most intelligent and sentient beings cannot reconcile differences other than to kill one another, is the greatest atrocity. Unfortunately sometimes that is the only option, to fight evil, with evil acts. I fear that this rewriting of history being promoted by so many we will forget everything that lead up to the point of war. You MUST study history from everyone’s perspective. Thank you.

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