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Good afternoon, catch sump s. Live to the Andersonville National Historic Site and cemetery for the next three hours taking your phone calls and watching a commemorative funeral for the 13,000 prisoners of war who died here in 1864 and 186 35 our guest eric leonard, the former andersonville chief of interpretation and Leslie Gordon, university of akron history professor. We are opening up phone lines to so you join in. If you want to give us a call and ask questions, 202. 7488900 in the eastern and central time zones. In the mountain and pacific, 2027488901. If you want to send us a tweet, you...

Its about an hour. Good morning. I will prewarn you today you will hear language that we fould repulsive. Im not going to cut it out because it makes us quiver. Well get started. On june 12th, 1864, after fails to defeat robert e. Lees army of northern virginia, Lieutenant General ulysses s. Grant accompanying Major General george g. Meades army of the potomac and a portion of the army of the james pulled away from the fortifications at cold harbor and began the Movement Toward petersburg. Some troops to the bermuda region north of petersburg to begin the attack on the city the following day o...

That big. Im going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. The professor at Georgia Southwestern State University who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Its a 20th century term. And i wliek to talk about. So it tends to slow me down a lot. Fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And, again, you...

, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. And i will explore that. And i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. A note on semantics before i start any further. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Because its a 20th century term. Like to talk a lot. Prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. Civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditiona...

In the region, this was their homeland, the whole pikes peak area was their homeland, and they would circumnavigate pikes part of their seasonal journeys. In the summer, they could find plenty of game and bison and elk on the west side of the mountains, and us fall would approach, they would start making their seasonal journey back to this area of Colorado Springs. In the wintertime, if you can think of the red rocks providing shelter and some warm areas to we have parks that have been dated to over 3000 years ago, and those journeys continued for many centuries. In the 1800s, the pressures of...