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He will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. We are opening our phone line so you can join the conversation. If you want to join the conversation, 2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If you live in the pacific or Mountain Time zones, 2027488901. You can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Page mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonard it is my pleasure t...

Adjacent to the cemetery location is eric leonard, the chief of the historical site. He will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. We are joining our phone line so you can join the conversation. If you want to join the conversation, 2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If in the pacific or Mountain Time zones, 2027488901. You can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for him joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonar...

As president , but warning against taking them out on an arbitrary time line next year. The president announcing today that he would keep nearly 10,000 troops in the region until october 2016 and then cut back to 5,500 in early 2017. In a statement the majority leader said the decision to reduce troop numbers should be left to the next president. You can read more here at the washington examiner. Weve heard from the chair of the Armed Services committee, who released a statement saying given the troubling conditions on the ground in afghanistan and the other Security Problems in the region kee...

Different. It is a valor and honor. Those concepts take a different form here. And many respects, in a standard guess, they are prisoners of war, and then you move right back to the battles. Often, and addressing the story, there is an and knowledge of that, and then no detail, and you move on. Andersonville has a name brand recognition. The public often doesnt know any of the details beyond the name and that something unusual took place there. Host lets start with the basics. When was it built . What was its purpose . Mr. Leonard in the fall of 1863 as the Exchange System of the previous two ...

And that speaks to the two of them in quite frankly not the flattering ways. With the army does the work of using the captured records, the death records that they have with them, with that expedition, hos dorance atwater, he served as a clerk in the prison hospital, and he was one of the halfdozen boys who were keeping the death register, other records of the hospital complex. So, for one of the bravest acts of conscience in the entire civil war. In midaugust 1864, when 100 men are dying a day, he thinks to himself, if my government knew, they would stop this. And he commits an act of bravery...