Andersonville Prison & National Cemetery

Andersonville Prison & National Cemetery - History on Location

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3 жыл бұрын

This is the final part of an eight-part series following my adventures in Georgia and Tennessee in May 2021. Today we visit the site of Camp Sumter, usually known as Andersonville Prison.
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@angelumlucis9249 3 жыл бұрын

None of the Union men in Andersonville will be forgotten. God bless the men who fought to keep this country together. And God bless the people who are trying to commemorate history. This includes the man on this channel who spends precious moments teaching us history.

@enesfurkanozkaya1872 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving non-americans a chance to study american history with locations.Also thanks for your efforts.Have a good day!

@zirconencrustedtweezers 2 жыл бұрын

As an American I am humbled by all of the people in other countries that have such strong interests in our country's history.

@MrDWinpenny 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a Brit and never heard of the camp before. Fascinating and heart breaking. The Henderson story really hit home. Thank you for your continuing hard work.

@poorpauly1308 3 жыл бұрын

There was a movie made in 1996 called Andersonville, worth a watch if you like movies and history.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

It’s on KZfaq.

@dbach1025 3 жыл бұрын

Hello from across the pond. Check out the other sides main detention facility in Chicago for comparison. It's called Camp Douglas. Bad things happened here too. Not letting them off the hook. But for the most part, the Union Prison for CSA POWs were better ran with less abuse and less incompetence.

@poorpauly1308 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing changed my perspective of war as a young man than learning of the horrors of Andersonville.

@jackmessick2869 3 жыл бұрын

The ferrotypes of some of the prisoners are horrific

@sylwiajankowska7512 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. I really like history! I really appreciate what history really is! I’m from Poland and my great grandad fought in the polish partisans in Lida, (today Belarus) and he fought there for freedom and even in the most desperate and unimaginable situations he still had belief to restore his country with his other fellow comrades! He lived to see that day and I know all about this because of a book he wrote! History truly can teach you something! 🇵🇱🇵🇱

@shawnkirkpatrick4009 3 жыл бұрын

My great-great grandfather George Mifflin Dallas Johnson who was a Private in the 149th Pennsylvania Bucktails Company H was a prisoner here from May 5, 1864 - Feb 28, 1865. He was so emaciated that when he returned to his family in June 1865 they didn't recognize him.

@KyleGBeers 3 жыл бұрын

This video hit home for me. I'm currently researching the role my home county in Pennsylvania played in the war and found 15% of all of our soldiers who died during the war died in Andersonville. Almost all were from the 103rd PA Infantry which was almost entirely captured during the Battle of Plymouth in 1864.

@BuhLooZeR 3 жыл бұрын

It's nice to see these historical sites and have someone explain the history behind them. Good video.

@davidarbuckle7236 2 ай бұрын

My late Aunt, Peggy Sheppard was an Andersonville Historian and I visited her in the late 70s in Andersonville. She told me some amazing stories.

@FromthePits Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this well thought out episode, no tale ever told will completely describe what these men went through whether they perished or survived unless you were there at that moment in time. I absolutely love reading the comments from descendants of those that were here. I myself am the second great grandson of Regulator "Big" Pete Aubrey. Even though I've never been here, I will always want to some day make the trip to Andersonville.

@deborahgibson9039 Жыл бұрын

You did a wonderful job bringing this story to light! It is so heartbreaking seeing all those headstones and it brought tears to my eyes knowing that 13,000 men never got to see home again.

@andrewautry1540 3 жыл бұрын

My father grew up 5 miles from here. It is one of the hottest and most humid places in the summer I have ever been to when we visited my grandparents farm.

@connorjeans6592 Ай бұрын

i had the chance to visit andersonville about 6 years ago now i was a little too young to fully understand the gravity of everything but i can still remember the solemn feeling of walking through the cemetery and seeing so many graves many of which were for unnamed soldiers and it really tore my heart into a million pieces

@BBHC2 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story of lightning strike causing water to gush out of the ground. It's seems an answer to desparate thirsty p.o.w's prayer.

@danieln.1034 3 жыл бұрын

The content that maybe does not have as many views as others, but definitely a gold mine for history enthusiasts

@neinzukorruption9321 3 жыл бұрын

I really do appreciate that it is shown in an absolutely non-sensational way. Often the presenter speaks emotional, sad and affected, from so many horrors he is telling us. Got the information about this channel from my nephew. Thanks darling.

@scottshearon 3 жыл бұрын

In college we got to be a part of an excavation of Camp Lawton, an overflow site of Andersonville. We found in tact brick floors and fire pits and ash from the prisoners and a huge chunk of the palisade wall. It was amazing to see living history.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome!

@scottshearon 3 жыл бұрын

It was fascinating to learn about the shebangs the prisoners built by stealing bricks from the chimneys the confederates built for cooking.

@ernestchoi4464 3 жыл бұрын

Wish they would of saved Camp Douglas aka North "Andersonville" back home in Chicago, IL.

@IAmWoody 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the North had some pretty bad prisons too, but they aren't vilified like the South. I studied this several years ago and there was another notorious prison in New York for Confederates, but I cannot remember the name of it.

@ernestchoi4464 3 жыл бұрын

@@IAmWoody Elmira Prison

@FultonEagle1948 2 жыл бұрын

Born and raised in Georgia, Atlanta to be exact, been studying the Civil War all my life, my specialty is The Battle Of Atlanta, Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga to Mayor Calhoun's surrender to Union Forces on what's now Northside Drive. Since my childhood, Andersonville is a place I will not visit. So painful to think Americans could and would do such to other Americans, even in a time of war. Wirtz could have, should have done better. He got what he deserved.

@bsye3752 3 жыл бұрын

Have a great x6 grandfather by the name of John Carter buried at Andersonville. Went to the camp and cemetery when I was kid to learn about the place and see his grave. One thing I remember vividly was the Georgia heat+mosquitos and thinking how awful it must of been for the prisoners with the overcrowding and unsanitary conditions compounding the already terrible natural conditions.

@MartinDHayes 4 ай бұрын

I'm just now finding your video on Andersonville. This was an excellent learning experience and I truly appreciate your work on all of these videos. Thank you sir!!

@roverboy006 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! This is my home county and my roommate in college worked as a ranger at this site. Every year there is a performance which portrays Captain Wirz trial at the camp. It is eerie to be there at night.

@garrettblanton5864 2 жыл бұрын

My dad and I took a day trip to this location and had a blast. I enjoy the content that you consistently produce on this channel. Keep up the good work!

@Teetoy4 6 ай бұрын

My family is from Andersonville population 231 now. They named a block after my great great grandfather Oscar Rd on our families 221 Acres. It’s a block from the camp. And we have 16 Acres on Stanford Rd. Also down the rd from the Sumter POW camp. I will be moving there 2027. RIP to the fallen soldier’s.💔💔💔

@WillardWright1986 3 жыл бұрын

Another Great Video As Always!

@grantsobkowski4097 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making this video! One of my ancestors who fought for the Union died in Andersonville, so this tour meant a lot to me!

@dillonkasel9070 3 жыл бұрын

I wrote my senior seminar paper about the atrocities and aftermath that occured at Andersonville and Elmira POW camps. This video captured the aura of the place and was respectful to the people that suffered. I have been a huge fan of your work. You are a fantastic historian and content creator. Keep up the awesome work.

@phantomtitan9792 2 жыл бұрын

The POWs will never be forgotten.

@sgtbrendan289 3 жыл бұрын

I went there in the summer of '97. I was on a business trip to Macon, and spend my weekend in the area going to Andersonville. Incredibly moving experience. Thank you for the reminder.

@ORXJ1992 3 жыл бұрын

I truly wish these videos got more attention like your reaction videos do. Your reverence and approach to these battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments is so different from the norm.

@Aboz 3 жыл бұрын

My great-great grandfather died at Andersonville. We have copies of his letters, including the one from his friend informing his wife he'd died. Hosea Fish (listed as Fisk) Row 4412, age 44.

@jamess7398 3 жыл бұрын

Prisons during the civil war are another one of those interesting tidbits that both sides struggled with the same problem and found similar outcomes. Andersonville is a great example of under appropriation, but at the same time it was 1864 and the south was on its way out. a great video and please keep up the great explorations of the civil war!

@user-jq8wr8ru2s 3 жыл бұрын

What a moving and incredible video. A great tribute to the Union prisoners. Thank you for providing such high quality content.

@stevedietrich8936 3 жыл бұрын

Chris, thanks for taking us along on your journey. It is hard to imagine the horrors of being imprisoned in a Civil War era hellhole like Andersonville.

@jimmyowens5415 3 жыл бұрын

My Great Grandpa was captured outside Atlanta on August 24th 1864, Sent to Andersonville and died a few days after a prisoner release on May 13th 1865. He was also native so sure he wasn’t treated well.

@phonewithoutquestion80 2 жыл бұрын

The landscape is harrowing yet beautiful. Shebang... Now I know what to call unfit tents.

@kruksog 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is great.

@SourDohSteele 3 жыл бұрын

I love these site visit videos. This one ,in particular, was really good!

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@TribeTaz Ай бұрын

Very good video. Sad stories of the men who were imprisoned there. Thank you for sharing your visit.,

@AddamsPlayground 3 жыл бұрын

A very nice review/tribute to a horrible time and place in our history. I read a few books on the place and it surely was hell on Earth for far too many....

@leman6912 3 жыл бұрын

hey love ur channel man keep up!

@hasanok4172 3 жыл бұрын

would love to see more of these

@jaypandya7441 3 жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to know more about Andersonville. I knew that it was one of the confederacy's worst prisons, but I had no idea that it was so crowded and brutal

@savagetilley2782 3 жыл бұрын

I cried though this whole video. Such a powerful story. so sad.

@SS-jr5wd 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this piece. My OCS class in 2010 organized an honor run from Fort Benning to the Andersonville site. (It was a relay, no one ran the entire 60 miles.) Somber experience. One thing I'd appreciate your take on: We learned that one reason the North called off the prisoner exchanges was that the North was engaged in a game of attrition: They had more soldiers and resupplying the South with men made no sense, if you wanted to bring about a quicker end to the war. It makes sense, but one of the consequences was Andersonville.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

That absolutely was a reason for stopping exchanges. They just couldn’t say that was a reason.

@samuel.andermatt 3 жыл бұрын

As a Swiss this is the first time an infamous person (Wirz) from the civil war came from so close to home. I have been born 25 km from Zurich, lived there for multiple years and worked and studied there even longer.

@tb0ne315 3 жыл бұрын

Had a field trip here like twenty years ago.

@Obmats 3 жыл бұрын

Only ever seen your react videos but decided to watch this video because I recently rewatched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and I think the prison in that movie was based on Andersonville (although as a Union prison). Great video, informative and respectful of the awful history there.

@benselectionforcasting4172 3 жыл бұрын

This was the most haunting place I've ever been too. Pictures from there seem closer to Pictures from an execution camp in Oswiecen, Polska.

@bruceedgecomb8722 3 жыл бұрын

really enjoy your site

@demise50 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. I especially love your videos about the UK but that is because I'm British :). keep it up mate!

@asweettooth1288 3 жыл бұрын

"Ey, and what do you call this little piece of heaven?!" "This, this is h'Anderson-Ville" Awesome 👌! Thanks for including us in your journey!. This has been a place of great significance to me since childhood. My First ancestor I ever knew of, is buried here. So happy to see you bring it all to life for so many to see. Huzzah! 🇺🇸

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you could join me. Hopefully we can connect again sometime.

@asweettooth1288 3 жыл бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory absolutely! 🤙

@Bentastic197 3 жыл бұрын

My 3x Grandfather 2Lt Xavier Picquet was captured sometime during the Siege of Atlanta and the csa didn't recognize that he was an officer. Which led him into a short stay at Andersonville. Once they realized that he was on officer, they transferred him out of Andersonville to an officers pow camp. He survived but was in rough shape.

@jackmessick2869 3 жыл бұрын

The brother of my GG Grandfather, Sgt Hiram Round, died as a result of dysentery contracted at a Confederate prison in Salisbury, North Carolina (three days after a prisoner exchange). Left behind four children, one of whom he never met. It's a drive from Atlanta, but totally worth the trip. It is the National POW Museum, so it covers all wars. The Vietnam war prisoner experience is very well covered as well, including how they communicated in secret.

@aptech1119 3 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget the POW camp in the union Elmira NY. Conditions not good there either

@hlwoodszy6812 3 жыл бұрын

Hey vloging if U look that the necklace the captain of the little ship in the music video for Bismark that’s the German soldier who was on Bismark when his captain gave him he coordinates to where the ship sunk

@robd1811 3 жыл бұрын

Went there back in middle school

@tomrkn 3 жыл бұрын

You need to watch some "Historia Civilis" videos! They make great content mostly about Rome. I recommend "Caesar crosses the Rubicon". Love your content, greetings from Argentina!

@MrDebone75 3 ай бұрын

My son and I visited Andersonville about the same time you did. The camp, museum and cemetery are some of the most humbling places I've ever been. One thing that really struck me, especially in this cancel culture we live, is the monument in the town of Andersonville dedicated to Wirtz the camp Commander. The only person North or south convicted and executed for war crimes.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 ай бұрын

One of two executed for war crimes. Champ Ferguson was executed October 20, 1865 for among other things the Saltville Massacre.

@MrDebone75 3 ай бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory he I never heard of.

@octavianorogesmusic 3 жыл бұрын

You choose great music

@svenrio8521 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@SamZinski 2 жыл бұрын

the only chance I have to say one of MY ancestors was there - sadly. My grandfather was a bugler in the 2nd WV Cav, captured at the Wytheville Raid, and perished within the palisade at Camp Sumter.

@benyoung9451 3 жыл бұрын

You’ve got to react to Jeremy clarksons Victoria cross

@derdoghead 3 жыл бұрын

One great place too see is Motts Military Museum.

@Silvercrypto-xk4zy 3 жыл бұрын

my 3rd great uncle was imprisoned there and later died as a result of infection from the terrible conditions. i managed to actually find the documentation

@normahird4362 3 жыл бұрын

Great vlog...have you seen the PBS movie about Andersonville? It started Jack Cassidy and Richard Basehart. Great presentation.

@jackmessick2869 3 жыл бұрын

@Norma Hird Is that the 1970's Trial story that had William Shatter?

@normahird4362 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackmessick2869 yes you can watch it on pbs

@maxwelljarman7785 3 жыл бұрын

👌👌

@jakescarborough7426 Жыл бұрын

I have a distant uncle who died there and is buried in the cemetery. Cpl J.E. Jones 2nd TN.

@bettygossell3408 8 ай бұрын

I had 2 great uncles there, only 1 survived,

@christopherburke3600 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, you should react to history scope. I suggest their episode on the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

@yungwhite2203 3 жыл бұрын

You should watch Apocalypse World War 1 you can find it in youtube its 5 series documentary And Its with Colored and added sounds. Its the perfect great war documentary

@gaylemc2692 3 жыл бұрын

This was very moving, especially given today's political climate. Thank you

@quinntinmann 3 жыл бұрын

Near my hometown Americus GA

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

That’s where I stayed the night before.

@blackhawk201991 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how accurate the show “Hell on Wheels” was about Andersonville prison, but in season 5, episode 8, there is a character known as “The Swede” who had experienced being a POW in Andersonville prison and they attempt to show what it was like being in the prison. Have you had a chance to see that episode and comment on how accurate the portrayal is of Andersonville prison?

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

I saw it a long time ago (love that show) but I would have to go back and watch it again.

@Leviticus500 3 жыл бұрын

Were you able to see the POW museum?

@thereisnowayyouareforreal5156 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Some fantastic parts i thought were missed in oversimplified (aka being oversimplified, i get it and love their stuff) you brought up. Definitely subbing, and hope for more of the same. Unfortunately and fortunatley you won't have much else that will draw as much attention as the worst war we will hopefully ever see, but i hope the channel does well

@fuferito 3 жыл бұрын

22:00 The story of Henderson Gerhart(?), whose own brothers fought for on both sides in the Civil War, is heartbreaking, but finding out that this young man had to stand trial for treason by a Government of literal traitors (and boastfully so) fills me with loathing for them beyond the slavery they stood for, even 160 later, in another country.

@claudiaclark6162 4 ай бұрын

I have a relative who died in Andersonville

@kingstraga7214 3 жыл бұрын

You should react to extra histories khosro

@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian 3 жыл бұрын

idk if youve watched Alternate History Hub before, but they just realeased another video, for the next time youre looking for something to react to

@Gab-yc4yf 3 жыл бұрын

May the unknown soldier's who die in the prison may rest in peace

@hridanshumohta1933 3 жыл бұрын

React to mughal empire or some Indian history pls

@guardianoftheglitch428 3 жыл бұрын

you can do a react a alternate history hub if south wins the american civil war(ps:its good the history to me).

@RilloRacing 3 жыл бұрын

15 like

@peterthegreat9728 3 жыл бұрын

@saiien2 3 жыл бұрын

If this was a Confederate camp for captured Union soldiers.. I would like to see camps for captured Confederates. I think that it was the same horror like this.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Similar at Elmira.

@robmurray33 3 жыл бұрын

Did the guy get back his hundo?

@sangreazulyblanca3810 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the terrible concentration camps of the boer wars

@erwin669 3 жыл бұрын

Something I've been curious about is what were the conditions that the guards were living in? Were they being provided with enough food and medical care or were they in dire straights just like the rest of the Confederate Army at the time? I know a big part of the lack of food at Andersonville had to do with the lack of food in the Confederacy as a whole. Was Wirtz doing like the commandant at Elmira and withholding food because he could?

@Billybob-bm7vt 3 жыл бұрын

Wirtz was trying to get supplies in he paroled about 15 union troops throughout 1864 asking Lincoln to exchange POWs wouldn't do it wirtz then tried sending letters to Richmond asking for supply's and to try and get the exchange going again Davis had no supply's to give writzs then tried building a dam and making 2 parallel streams one for drinking and the other for doing your business but many of the POWs tried escaping or just flat out refused to do it and writzs was then put in a no win situation

@definitelyslav2025 3 жыл бұрын

This isn’t about the civil war I’m just recommending a Video by Squire called Hoi4: Germany in a nutshell. It’s someone acting like Hilter and PM Neville in a meeting it has good humor and explain the start of the war. I’m gonna soil a joke down there if you want to see what it’s comedy is like. How did you get to this meeting mr. fuhrer, I personally came in from Dunkirk horrid place would wan to get stuck there for a week. I came from the ardenz I personally said to my driver : Really narrow place would be able to smash panzer divisions through here.

@jasonwiggins6137 3 жыл бұрын

I have just found your channel and I am learning a lot, and I am enjoying your content. I have a video request concerning a hot historical topic. Black Confederates. As someone who grew up in the South, I was told there was many more Black Confederates then there actually were. Growing up and expanding my knowledge I realized that the opposing point of view had far more validity, and Slaves were just forced into action as cooks, clean up, etc. I am now currently under the assumption that both sides of the argument is incorrect. Abbeville Institute for instance, has over twenty first hand accounts from Union Soldiers and Officers clearly citing Black Confederate Sharpshooters. This is in stark contradiction to renown Civil War Historians from the Pennsylvania that clearly states that there were zero, none, end of story. History should never be told from a bias point of view and I see it clearly from both sides. Could you help out with this topic? Thanks.

@phamchau4320 3 жыл бұрын

React to what if ww1 ended by christmas by alternatHH pls

@valyahmadi 3 жыл бұрын

can you react to altermatehistoryhub's video on what would happen if france won the 7 year war

@danisawesome4214 3 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t they Dig a REAL latrine and use that instead of the creek??

@neinzukorruption9321 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, so many men. I am crying. And I am not even American :'-(

@jeremydyar7566 3 жыл бұрын

You need a drone

@Shifty69569 3 жыл бұрын

I totally understand the men that touched the wall or tried to escape… brutal

@drafter3412 3 жыл бұрын

Question (anyone can answer): My g-g-grandfather (Simon Tarbell 76th NY) was captured at the Wilderness, and official records show he was kept prisoner from May 1864 to March 1865. Family legend says he was at Andersonville but I can find no record. Were there other prison camps in the confederacy? Thank you, this was a great vid!

@shawnkirkpatrick4009 3 жыл бұрын

If you ever go to Andersonville to visit you can actually log onto a computer there and it contains a registry of prisoners who were kept there.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 жыл бұрын

There were others but that if he was an enlisted man captured in early 1864, chances are he went to Andersonville.

@drafter3412 3 жыл бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistory Thank You!

@drafter3412 3 жыл бұрын

@@shawnkirkpatrick4009 Thank You! I'm hoping for an online database someday. I'm over in Nebraska and not sure when I can make it to Georgia....

@Bomber0000 3 жыл бұрын

Hey can you react to a Armchair historian video

@3kz 3 жыл бұрын

rip patreon money

@dbach1025 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, and most evil part of Andersonville is the huge numbers that died in just over a year there compared to Camp Douglas where less than 4500 perished despite being there longer. One aspect is of course the resources available at Douglas being a main Federal base. But CSA had no business holding POWS if they could not offer reasonable detention. Doesnt have to be fun. Might as well just shot 1 out of 3 POWS or more. Pure evil and I competence. In the very least damning tone, the negligence, if that is what they want to ckaim, is also evil.