and yet, salisbury's -- and this is where that junius and albert book is a good outside observer example in that those two newspaper reporters are at salisbury and they witness it going from where baseball games are played to something else entirely. one of the two of them was working in the hospital and he starts to keep a list of the dead because that fear that records may not be kept. wertz is one of two confederate staff at andersonville tried for violations of the laws of war. his trial is, quite frankly, one of the darkest holes of study of the war and its consequences. the last time an in depth study of just the trial was written by a legal scholar was 1917. a lot have said around the trial but they don't examine the trial itself. to me one of the truisms about this, people who complain about it never read the trial. the transcript exists and it's a confounding document. the trial lasts 63 days. there are two charges. the first is being part of a conspiracy to, you know, maim and murder american soldiers in violation of the laws of war. the second set of charges is individual acts