the -- especially at camp laughton. site was essentially forgotten. and the joke there is a garage graduate student about six years ago really wanted to finish his degree in archaeology. and his professor said oh, the fish and wildlife service, there's going to be nothing there. wrong. that prison was abandoned in a hurry. youryou leave, you take stuff. it's not quite that simple. when they move, they take their stuff with them. it's post-farm, post-war and it's cleaned up during the prisons operation. johnson's island is really valuable. certainly, dr. bush's book about the letters he uses where he's then illustrating with archaeological finds is really valuable and trying to, again, personalize this story. >> i'm robert holmes from piedmon, north dakota. i wonder if the horror is exemplary or was it qualitatively different from places like elmyra or was it simply four times as large? >> well, we'll use elmyra as an example. elmyra operates for about a year. the total number of confederate prisoners of war held there is larger than the number of dead

when he's moved to the camp laughton facility in the fall, he's paroled out. he works in the hospital. and, as a consequence, his drawings of the camp laughton prison facility are almost hyper accurate. in terms of not only the stockade, but placement of exterior features. prisoners of war face impossible choices. that we in many respects do not understand and cannot understand. it's almost a moral calculous -- calculus, where the equations are all different. as one example of that, john tarsney, a michigan soldier held in andersonville and then in the -- moved in the fall to camp laughton, in the fall, during one of the exchanges in november of the sick and the wounded, he realizes he's just too healthy. he doesn't qualify for the exchange. the night before the prisoners selected are to be transported away, as he walks through that 42 acre enclosed stockade, he happens across another soldier, very clearly qualified for the exchange. was,s suspicious, and he that that soldier was so weak, so ill, he was not going to live through the night. he stops and spends

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