gies of the folks in Andersonville, the historic site has become a major tourist attraction. The Park includes rolling acres of similar gravestones, testifying silently to the thousands who perished under awful conditions. There also one can see markers indicating the extent of grounds once covered by the rotting hell that was the prison camp. A small, granite building covers the only, and inadequate, source of water, which served the teeming crowds that once swarmed over the now silent, green hills. Nearby, the Park Service has rebuilt the main gate to the prison. At another corner of the prison's one-time wooden wall, the Service has reconstructed that wall, with its guard tower; below the wall are recreations of prisoner "accommodations" (i.e., ragged tents). Nearby is the relatively new, National Prisoner of War Museum, which, while not focused on the Civil War alone, has become a major attraction in its own right. ...more

February 15, 2009

Some of the most poignant stories from the Clay Sink Cemetery are about the children buried there. ...more

December 26, 2007

Cemetery director Przemyslaw Isroel Szpilman walks among the moss-covered and crumbling gravestones of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, painstakingly jotting details in his notebook. ...more

December 16, 2007