dorence atwater, the most famous of the patrolled prisoners of andersonville, he served as a clerk in the prison hospital. he was within of a half dozen boys who were keeping the death register, other records of the hospital complex. dorence atwater is famous and rightly so for one of the bravest acts of conscience in the entire american civil war. in mid august, 1864 when 100 men are dying a day, he thinks to himself, if my government knew, they would stop this. he commits an act of bravery. he makes the choice when the chief surgeon is not present to start copying the entire death register. it's a small office. his fellow parole clerks, they see what he's doing, they know what he's doing. they don't tell. a couple of them copy the idea. the difference is one like solan hyde copies the death register from his own state. dorence atwater was thinking about the thousands of families across the country who might not know otherwise. >> we are -- >> go ahead. >> i'm sorry to say we're just minutes away from special ceremonies there at andersonville. >> indeed we are. >> we can take one mor