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To: Tennessee Nana

Was that Andersonville ???
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Location of a notorious Confederate military prison where many Yankees died from diseases rather than their combat wounds.


21 posted on 08/15/2020 8:01:37 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat; LOC1

Yes it was horrible...I felt like crying while I was there with a friend who is a member of a Grand Old Army society and had a relative imprisoned there...


26 posted on 08/15/2020 10:31:32 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: fortes fortuna juvat; Tennessee Nana
And a couple of thousand of early "parolees" from Andersonville and another POW camp, whose homeward destination was up the Mississippi, had the misfortune of embarking on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat).
31 posted on 08/15/2020 4:04:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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