Actually, my phone works here, so I'm posting with it. We took the SAM Shortline train from Georgia Veterans State Park to Plains today. This wasn't my first time on a passenger train, but the cars were from the 1940s and the train is operated by the Georgia parks service. That makes it my first time in a moving state park.
After we disembarked back at GA Veterans, we drove over to Andersonville, where the notorious Confederate Civil War prison was and the National Prisoner of War Museum stands. I've wanted to go to this place since I was in high school but never have, so I was pretty excited about this. The museum is actually pretty well done, but the prison site itself is like every other Civil War military site. It's just monuments and markers saying where things used to be, although there were a couple of small sections of reconstructed stockade walls. I, being the dork that I am thoroughly enjoy things like this. My wife and father, on the other hand, don't, so I made my looking and reading as brief as I could bear. The actual space the prison occupied was larger than I imagined. For those interested in old cemeteries, this one is hard to beat. The oldest sections have remained the same since the 1870s and are so close together that they obviously weren't using coffins.
I have photos, some even on this phone, but I can't figure out how to upload photos on blogger with the mobile version of Internet Explorer. I'll put them up tomorrow.
2 comments:
Look at you with the using of a cell phone. I declare you a changed man.
Funny you visited there on the same day I posted about that Civil War Commerative Ring.
I'm a geek too and just make people wait until I'm done reading all the signs. So I'm also an asshole.
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