devldog
Silver Member
Nice story Wrightdigger. So many sad stories came from the CW time period......on both sides. Mr. Hamilton well deserves the right to be remembered as all those veterans do. Something that is never discussed much are the CW P.O.W. prisons. It seems the only one talked about is Andersonville Prison. It was indeed a terrible place, but in my opinion not out of hatred or deprivation to the prisoners there, but out of lack of medical supplies, food, and clothing. The Confederate guards there at the prison were dying from the same diseases that the prisoners were dying from. Not to trivialize this at all, but the long story short, was that all these prisons were terrible for both sides. Your research and story here was appreciated. All these men and the women on the home front alike deserve the right to be remembered. Some folks are trying their dead level best to remove all our History, Monuments, and anything that don't fit in to their agenda while pointing fingers and calling others Nazi's and facists. If these folks want to really see these monsters, they need to look no further than a mirror.
