The SCALAWAG Mess

Co.B 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry

Portraying Eastern & Western Troops of both sides of the War Between the States 1861 - 65

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Scalawag US Tour November 1998

Andersonville, Ga.

If you ever get the chance, go to see the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville, Ga., site of the infamous Confederate Prison Camp in 1864. There is a superb and moving exhibition of POW life in all America's wars there. The camp itself has one corner of the stockade that surrounded the camp built, plus the entry gates.

We went on a cold day in November, so it was difficult to imagine the stifling heat and the stench that pervaded the place in the Summer months of 1864, but the huge cemetary adjacent to the site tells the real story.

Living History Prisoners' Shelters Corner of the Stockade

Shelters from a previous LH Display .....................................................The Stockade corner

 

View from outside gate looking in The Andersonville Spring

View inside the Compound from the Gate..... Inside the 'The Andersonville Spring' Monument

 

Main gate at Andersonville ..............................................Kentuckian's Gravestone

The Gate at Andersonville..................................................................A Kentuckian's Resting Place

 

Andersonville Cemetery The sobering sight of the Andersonville Cemetery

Tourist trap shop

On a lighter note - where Pete was asked if he'd 'like to see the baby animals round the back'

 

 

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