The Commandant's Perspective-NPS-Macon Co
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Sprinterman
N 32° 11.539 W 084° 07.896
16S E 770417 N 3565361
On the high hill near the star fort.
Waymark Code: WMAFX9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 01/10/2011
Views: 5
The Commandant's Perspective
From these heights near headquarters, Capt. Henry A. Wirz could observe everything within the prison walls. Envision the white post perimeter as the stockade; 30,000 human beings within that area; the din of all those voices, the groans from the hospital, the shouts of the guards, the smell of unwashed clothes and bodies.
Today's landscape of quiet grass softens for us the images of Andersonville. Wirz, the prison commandant, did not have that luxury.
Type of Marker: Other
Marker #: none
Date: Unknown
Sponsor: National Park Service
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