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membership and subscription?

I'm a translator needing to port it to another language. This is the original sentence In 1890 the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Georgia bought the site of Andersonville Prison from membership and subscription I am confused to which the membership and subscriptions refer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gooyyaoyao (talk • contribs) 10:31, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Malnutrition

This article doesn't strike me as particularly neutral. I kind of suspect that Southern whites ate dramatically better than Andersonville POWs, but I'll have to look it up. I suppose deaths of malnutrition among the guards is relevant to this; death by infectious disease, not so much. Boris B 22:10, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Southern Guards ate out of the same bakehouse that feed the prisoners. Their death rate, while in less numbers, were actually very close to the same in percentage. The seeming contradiction in the grave count is that they failed to state that the cemetary is still an active national cemetary in which Servicemen are still buried to this day. Pumabuck

Camp Sumter

I deleted the link to Camp Sumpter since it just redirects back to the article on Andersonville. Ronduck 22:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)hi[reply]

Number of deaths

45,000

Cleanup

This article needs to be organized, split into proper sections, and more extensively referenced. /Blaxthos 19:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expand article

go suck a duck

Article title

Why is this article titled "Andersonville National Historic Site" when clearly "Andersonville prison" (currently a redirect) is the more applicable term? In fact, shouldn't there be two separate articles, one for the prison (its history and controversy, etc) and one for its current status as a Historic Site? What are people's thoughts on the latter? María (habla conmigo) 00:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Andersonville National Historic Site" is the official name. It includes the prison, the National Cemetary, and the Prisoner of War museum. More needs to be said about this. Bubba73 (talk), 00:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In encyclopedic terms, the current official name is less important than how it is recognized by history. My Encyclopedia of the Civil War has an entry on Andersonville Prison, not Andersonville National Historic Site. :) The suggestion is that two separate articles are maintained, both of which can grow in separate ways: "Andersonville prison", which can include a section on the current state of the site's current National Historic status, and "Andersonville National Historic Site", which will contain the rest of it and further information when added. This sort of split has been done with other articles in which there appears to be a conflicting areas of coverage. María (habla conmigo) 01:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is OK with me, but I have no references with which to write it. I was there two months ago, but I didn't get any literature or anything. There probably isn't much to be said about the Cemetery or Museum outside the article on the National Historic Site. But the prison could be split off. I'm not opposed to splitting it off. What do others think? You might ask on a History project or the Military History project. Bubba73 (talk), 01:13, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i yhink that by seperating the articals it might confuse some poeople, espically the people still in grade school. espically if they are unaware of the difference in the historical name and the name as it is recognized on a national level, but it would make more sence to split the artical in my mind, and also someone should add more subtitles to clean the artical up a bit. i would, but i dont have any time and dont know enough about the topic.

Survivor?

How is it possible for the "survivor" whose picture is in the article to actually be alive? There is basically no flesh left on his body and I can't even see his eyes. Are we sure he isn't dead? --Hnsampat (talk) 00:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That pic is of a survivor, believe it or not.--Jojhutton (talk) 20:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i thought the ame thing when i first saw the picture, but the person is alive, although i think he died shortly after the potograph was taken

Is there any evidence that the picture is real? Does anyone know his name? Where are his genitals? KevinLuna (talk) 14:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is documentation that prisoners starved to death in the prison. If one starves to death one becomes skeletal before expiring, the body having metabolized all fat and all muscle in its effort to stay alive. Now, since there is written documentation of starvation it would not be a far reach to assume that there would be photographed documentation. Thus, the picture is likely real. The fact that you can't see the genitals doesn't mean the photo is fake either. This photo was taken over 140 years ago. Fading, blurring or deliberately camouflaging the genital area because of sexual mores of the time could all be reasons why you don't see his penis. As to his identity, why should there be any? The photographs taken at Auschwitz do not mention the names of the surviving prisoners, either. A photograph of a person in this physical state would be taken for criminal evidence and not for identity. Really, the three questions are completely disingenuous. You don't have to think about it too much to accept that the photo is real. I guess my question is, given all the evidence surrounding Andersonville prison, why WOULDN'T you think it was real? -Heather

Help with pictures

I have tried a few times to move the pics and words around, but the main article still does not flow. Can some one help.--Jojhutton (talk) 20:11, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Info Box needs fixing

Hi, This is envirodan here.

I'd like to say that I do not know how to fix the info box, and I would like to ask all the people smarter than me to help make this page better. Thank You. (To a greener tomorrow (talk) 00:37, 22 October 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Racism -> overcrowding

The Confederacy refused to recognize black Union soldiers as soldiers, accord them prisoner of war status, or include them in "exchanges" of captured enemy soldiers between the two sides. It should be made clearer in the article that this was an important factor leading to the overcrowding. AnonMoos (talk) 12:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wirtz Trial

There is an article "No Darker Field OF Crime" pp 10, in "Georgia BackRoads" (Spring 2011 Edition) that should be reviewed as to the legitimacy of the Captain Henry Wirtz trial. Specifically that damning testimony by the prosecution's star witness, Felix de la Baume, who in reality was Felix Oeser - a deserter from a New York regiment - "had never set foot in Andersonville Prison". 98.18.53.66 (talk) 01:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's cited but it can't possibly be right.

"... and blunt weapon executions from guards, diarrhea, and disease."

How exactly does diarrhea and disease carry out a "blunt weapon execution"? There shouldn't be a comma in front of the 'and' either. 109.156.49.202 (talk) 16:49, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture depictions

In the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly there is a prisoner of war camp setting. Is this Andersonville? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.50.195 (talk) 21:15, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]