[rustbucket]

This may be getting more off-topic, but highly interesting that members of the Cherokee Nation (REAL Indians, not fake 1/16th-Indian white guys) come to the Pt. Lookout POW memorial services to lay wreaths at the memorial to rebel POWs. I've seen it myself. The people were real, too, not just fakirs like the casino people up in Connecticut.

Perhaps they were descendants of the following prisoners. [Source: February 27, 1864, Daily Picayune of New Orleans, reporting on a letter from a federal in Knoxville published in the Chicago Tribune of February 18]

Among our prisoners are about 100 copperfaced, bareheaded and barefooted Indians from the smoky mountains of North Carolina. Such savage wretches should never be taken prisoner. They will be sent North with the rebel deserters.

[stand watie]

actually about 2500-3000 AIs were "transported to confinement" at PLPOWC. hardly any Indians, Asians,Jews,Latinos or Blacks survived that DAMNyankee hellhole. (it was, to quote a US COL, "less costly to shoot them than to feed the savages".)

4 of my relatives names are on the PLPOWC memorial-all Cherokees from NC. (in our family's case the DYs "batted a thousand"=====> 4 transported = 4 murdered.)

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