that big. i m going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. the professor at georgia southwestern state university who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. in a civil war context. it s a 20th century term. and i wliek to talk about. so it tends to slow me down a lot. fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively, the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy far from perceived locations battle. and 50 years
, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. and i will explore that. and i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. a note on semantics before i start any further. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. in a civil war context. because it s a 20th century term. like to talk a lot. prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally a
and i like to talk a lot. prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively. the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy, far from perceived locations of battle. and 150 years later, this prisoner of war story remains distant from the rest of the narrative. we have the tendency to talk about prisoner of war camps, and andersonville, off to the side of the main narrative of the war. it s, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, by the
Richard (Dick) James Little passed away November 20, 2023, in St. George, Utah. Dick was born on November 26, 1930, in Ogden, Utah, the son of Samuel Melvin and
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