Pics Charge!

Don't know if this will help, but that's never stopped me before:

Jabber,

Have you seen this before:

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en

Jabber, I am wondering if you have ever visited Andersonville, GA.?

Who was Henry Wirz?

I knew Rick could come up with some appropriate pics! Rick, I added that Google Image Search to my Fav. links. You posted some interesting line drawings that may work better than what I had in mind. Thanks!

Mrs.M, never was at Anderson, GA. Was at a few Gettysburg, PA reenactments! I helped out on the special effects crew. We were the only guys NOT shooting blanks! One of the guys on the crew said he thinks most reenactors fall into 3 general groups: 1) Those that want to have fun! 2) Those that want to be historically accurate. and 3) Those that want to use LIVE AMMUNITION!!

Thanks for your input!

Jabbergah                                                    

Rick, Apparently this guy was in charge of a prisoner of war prison in Andersonville, GA. After the war, he was convicted of mistreatment of the union prisoners and was hanged.

Jabbergah                                                    

Correct jabber. Only person, I think, convicted of war crimes in the Civil War.

Yes, that is correct. I have visited Andersonville a couple of time. Very interesting and sad history.

The last Civil War veteran died in 1959. After Ft. Pillow, Grant stopped the exchange of prisoners. Andersonville was the result.

I'm dead (pardon pun) certain of the 1st sentence, but it's late and the rest should be researched before acceptance.

Andersonville, I think, was the 5th largest "city" in the South.

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Originally posted by Jabbergah:
I helped out on the special effects crew. We were the only guys NOT shooting blanks!

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You have a muzzle loader?

I like that one the best

Lexie

Lexie - chat?

It was so bad at Andersonville that many soldiers crossed an invisable line so they would be shot.

Sheesh, I can't even spell tonight!

There is a small creek there. It was their only water source. Because there were so many prisoners in such a small area, they poluted the creek, causing many deaths. The death squad worked 24/7.

Rick - Chat?

Lexie

Rick,

No, I don't have a muzzleloader. What we did was to answer the canons with explosions in the field and in the air. The canon guys were of course firing powder charges with no projectiles -- we'd trigger a charge so it would LOOK like they actually fired something. We weren't able to answer ALL the canon firings, just some of them. Interesting gig, though!

Jabbergah