I go to Atlanta about once a month...
I have friends in the UDC AND the LGAR...:)
But my closest friend is one of those Yankee scum ladies of the GAR.. Grand Army of the Republic..
she and I visited Andersonville Prison last month...its near Americus, GA..
between Feb 1864 and April/May 1865 54.000 Union soldiers were imprisoned at Andersonville (Fort Sumner)...
13,000 died there and are buried in the cemetery ...they died of their wounds, illness, the cold, hunger and diseases from the unsanitary conditions ..about 100 died every day..
They were given a grave marker with a number..
after the war...yeah OK the War of Northern Aggression (happy now ???)
after the whatever war, Clara Barton helped identify numbers and names together so that the Union soldiers would have a proper burial place...
the bodies of the Confederates who died at the prison... many guards got sick too...were moved to another cemetery later...
Next time you are in town, buy ya a coffee.