Nice pics. Capt. Todd. A thought came to me as I looked at ALL OF THEM. I wondered if you, Capt.,could combine two or three of these pictures with two or three of WW 11 and two or three of the
present. What a sight that would be. Yes men suffered in all three generations. Rocky
Well, not only were there men from the Civil War, but there were also US servicemen from that time to the present. It is a active cemetery and there were two funerals the day we visited. Here are some of the photos I took:
A 3 war vet (kinda sums up what you were talking about, right?)
This is a memorial becuase they were never able to recover the body.
Our guide and the more modern graves (note the space in between as opposed to the Andersonville prisoner ones.)
Forgot to add in this interesting story. Our dear Darlene may know the story about the Andersonville Raiders but I didn't. They were a gang of criminals who robbed and killed fellow prisoners. Eventually, the rest of the prisoners asked the Officer in charge of the prison, Capt Wirz, permission to begin a police force called the Regulators. Eventually, they captured the raiders and the ring leaders. Wirz gave permission to try the perpetrators. The bulk of them were forced to run the gauntlet (men with clubs on each side) and the 6 ring leaders were hung in the prison. Here is a picture of the ringleaders' graves:
They were buried away from the rest of the soldier population.