Andersonville Civil War Prison Camp
Memorial Day Remembrance 2014
I am a member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War (DUVCW) and have over a dozen ancestors who fought in the Civil War, although none of them were imprisoned in Andersonville. My Florida Chapter of DUVCW participates in this very special Memorial Day Remembrance and I was asked to present the wreath for our Chapter - Mary Todd Lincoln Tent #10. It was a hot, humid and sweltering 95 degree day in Georgia and many of the Ladies still wore full attire. Let me present the town of Andersonville first.
One of the reconstructed churches
Cemetery has been in used since the 1840's
Andersonville Village Hall since 1832
Mr. Wirt's Office during his tenure as the Prison Warden
A monument to Mr. Wirt, the prison warden who was the only civilian executed for war crimes during the Civil War. This monument was presented by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Wirt did receive a pardon for his alleged crimes but denied it and hence was executed.
Abandoned buildings that look like they were constructed in the 1920's
I think this says it all when remembering the importance of Memorial Day. War is such an unfortunate event and yet there are men, and women, who have given their lives for this country and must be interred as name unknown. Their mothers and fathers went to their own final resting never knowing what happened to their sons or where they lay and therefore denied the humble act of grieving at a grave.
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