After a rainy night in Georgia, we got to a late start. It was still raining pretty hard in the morning, and driving the motorhome in pounding rain isn’t fun. When we finally started out, a joint decision was made to visit Andersonville, the notorious Confederate POW camp – only a “short distance” out of the way. As we drove, we encountered more pelting rain and a road crew working on a large tree that had taken out some power lines. Traffic had come to a halt, so we ate our lunch while sitting in traffic.
We got to the POW Museum around 1pm, watched the 2 videos, browsed the exhibits, and took the audio-guided tour of the camp itself and the cemetery in our car due to the rain. It was both tragic and fascinating. We left much enlightened, and very wet around 5pm.
Captured soldiers built their own shelters.
The cemetery: dead soldiers buried shoulder to shoulder in pits… There are thousands of them.
We spent the night in Ashburn, GA.
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