To: IronJack
‘I have actually visited Fort Monroe where he was held after the armistice. The story told there is that he was a decent, restrained man, and the guards felt somewhat sheepish about confining him.’
How the Union treated him while he was there for two years is one of the uglier post Civil War incidents you’ll never read about in any highschool history book.
8 posted on
11/19/2007 10:17:43 AM PST by
Badeye
(That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
To: Badeye
How the Union treated him while he was there for two years is one of the uglier post Civil War incidents you’ll never read about in any highschool history book. Too bad the Confederate Prison in Salisbury was out of operation.
23 posted on
11/19/2007 10:39:49 AM PST by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Badeye
How the Union treated him while he was there for two years is one of the uglier post Civil War incidents you’ll never read about in any highschool history book. For the most part he was treated far better than Union POWs were treated in the South.
51 posted on
11/19/2007 11:04:04 AM PST by
Non-Sequitur
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To: Badeye
Based on what a hell hole Andersonville Prison was, he was lucky not to be hung.
124 posted on
11/19/2007 12:00:46 PM PST by
investigateworld
( Those BP guys will do more prison time than nearly all Japanese war criminals ...thanks Bush!)
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