01-29-15, 06:28 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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^ A little concentrated 'Victor's justice'?
Nope! this one's on US! Andersonville and its commandant, Henry Wirtz, executed for war crimes would argue with that assertion a tad. Looks very 'concentrated' to me...By comparison, equally miserable Camp Douglas near Chicago was as bad if not a little worse; yet no Union Commandant was ever similarily charged. "The camp officials contracted with an unscrupulous undertaker, C. H. Jordan, who sold some of the bodies of Confederate prisoners to medical schools-nothing like a little medical science at the old concentration camp I tell ya!-and had the rest buried in shallow graves without coffins. Some bodies reportedly were even dumped in Lake Michigan, only to wash up on its shores. Bodies may have ended up in the lake because they were initially buried in shallow graves along the shore and were exposed due to erosion. Jordan shipped 143 bodies to Kentucky, according to official records, and claimed to have sent 400 bodies to the families of the deceased during the course of the war. Many dead prisoners' bodies initially were buried in unmarked paupers' graves in Chicago's City Cemetery. In 1867 their bodies were reinterred at what is now known as Confederate Mound in Oak Woods" Cemetery .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Douglas_(Chicago) Looks pretty concentrated to me
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