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1 posted on 08/18/2011 2:51:42 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck; SunkenCiv

What about the one in Texas where Tuco and Blondie were being held?


2 posted on 08/18/2011 2:56:15 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Hunton Peck

I’ve seen one of these in a zoo. They’re HUGE.

Wish the article had a pic.


3 posted on 08/18/2011 3:00:27 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! !)
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If Cump had been a bit faster, the prisoners could have kept their stuff.


4 posted on 08/18/2011 3:04:04 PM PDT by reg45
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To: Hunton Peck
The Civil War POW prison that made all the papers was Andersonville. It was mentioned in John Ford's classic, Horse Soldiers, even though Andersonville hadn't been invented yet at the time of John Wayne's raid that did happen in real life.

Henry Wirtz was hung for his management of Andersonville. Outside of the fact that Wirtz should have been hung for arrogance, his hanging as a war criminal was probably a miscarraige of justice.

The stories I read about Libby Prison suggested more than one war criminal in that venue. That was a Confederate Prison.

I once read that Camp Douglas in Illinois could have served as a nice example of war criminality if the Good Guys had lost that war.

Civil War POW camps struck me as some pretty dreadful places. It seems like they were glossed over by the great authors such as Shelby Foote and Bruce Catton.

5 posted on 08/18/2011 3:08:47 PM PDT by stevem
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bttt


7 posted on 08/18/2011 3:23:56 PM PDT by silverleaf (The super rich do not pay taxes, they collect taxes.)
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Jacob S Gedling, My 2nd great grand uncle, was in the 8th Cavalry Regiment Ohio Co.F. 1864-1865

Captured by Confederate forces on Jan. 11, 1865 and taken to Richmond, Va. Where He became ill from exposure. Paroled on 17 Feb. 1865 and sent to U.S. Army Hospital in Annapolis, Md. Where he died of Typhoid Fever.


11 posted on 08/18/2011 4:54:49 PM PDT by elder5
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