Andersonville National Historic Site

prison at Andersonville, four young men—Isidore Naviaux, Henry Devillez, Lambert Rogier, and Xavier Rogier—endured appalling conditions and made an oath to pay tribute to Our

feelings of resentment soon turned to animosity as conditions went from mildly inconvenient to hellish nightmares. This will become apparent when given the history of the prison camps and examples of two of the worst offenders - Confederate led Andersonville in the South and Union run Elmira to the North. These fiendish prisons and their practices would leave a wound

was near the edge of this plague-spot, and how we were to live through the warm summer weather in the midst of such fearful surroundings, was more than we cared to think of just then.” Andersonville is a southern camp that could easily be compared to concentration camps,. Henry Wirz, in charge of Andersonville, was tried and executed for the crimes that he committed while being in charge.

Andersonville (the Movie) “Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wooden gates with heavy iron hinges and bolts. They swung open as we stood there and we passed through into the space beyond. We were at Andersonville.” – Private John McElroy

Camp Douglas and Camp Sumter were both Civil War prisoner of war camps located in Chicago, IL, and Andersonville, GA. At first, I wondered how they were similar and different since they were in different states as well as different sides throughout the war and the significance of the names. Through research, I learned that the two camps were more alike than different. The only distinctive things at each camp that one held more prisoners, which is why more died and survived there and that they had

god america i” is a parody of a speech one would expect to hear coming from a politician, except in this speech the politician comes off as incomprehensible and comically patriotic. The way that the speech consists almost entirely of allusions to national anthems and other platitudes in an attempt to win the favor of the common man is a harsh critique on the state of American politics as well as on the average voter. Similar to this, the women in “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished

What Happened to the Colony of Roanoke America has one of the oldest unsolved mystery’s dating back to 1587. To this day no one knows exactly what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. (History.com 1) There are several theories as to what happened, but there is no definite proof. This is a display of the theories and history of Roanoke. In July of 1587, 116 settlers were sent to Roanoke under John White, who was the governor. This was the second colony attempted at Roanoke Island, off the

Although Roanoke Island was not the site that White intended to colonize, the pilot of the ships refused to carry the settlers any farther north once they had reached the original settlement site. Upon reaching the location where Grenville had left his men, White’s party discovered that the men that had been charged to look after the settlement had been attacked and

The lost colony of Roanoke is a very occult matter such as what happened to the people who were doing just fine until one day when all of a sudden, they disappeared. Roanoke was a first ditch attempt to set up a colony on the east coast of North America. They had traveled to America before to see if they could settle the land. This area was scanned by a colonizing expedition ordered by Sir Walter Raleigh so he sent Sir Richard Greenville and Sir Ralph Lane and they built the Citie of Raleigh in 1585

Red Cross Training Learning and having the Red Cross training has completely been of a great advantage to me. This experience has persuaded me to accomplish a new set of goals in my life, like helping others in need. It also has augmented my knowledge about this important organization. According to what I learned, Clara Barton was the founder of the Red Cross, and the mission of this foundation is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies. This is a worldwide organization