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Civil War American National Cemeteries
The most noted of rebel prison pens was Andersonville, Ga., associated as it is with the most inhuman barbarities ever committed by any savage or civilized people, intentionally and systematically perpetrated, resulting in death in all its forms.
"A writer in the "Hartford Courant" says of this infernal place, invented and constructed with the design of destroying the lives of Union prisoners of war, and alas ! alas ! too fully accomplishing its most hellish purpose:
"The stockade was erected in the midst of a primeval pine forest. The heavy logs were placed upright, close together, standing from 15 to 18 feet above the ground, to make the inclosure. Within it every tree and shrub was
cut down. Not a tent was furnished; a few soldiers only carried in with them old blankets that were not considered worth seizing.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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