This is the location of our home RV park in Resort Parks International, a discount club we’re members of. It’s located on I75 south of Perry, Georgia. We stopped here for a couple of nights on our way home.
Nearby is Andersonville, which was the location to one of the most infamous Civil War prisons. Because of the huge number of soldiers that died in the prison here, they decided to build a museum here dedicated to ALL prisoners of war from all of our wars. It’s a neat museum that tells the story of Andersonville but also tells of the story of many different prisoners of war. To understand how bad things were in the Andersonville prison you need to start by knowing that during the short 14 months the prison was open they had over 45,000 prisoners and 13,000 of them died in the prison (that’s an average of 31 dead prisoners every day the prison was open). The stockade picture above shows just a small corner of what the prison would have been like because there was no housing for prisoners and they fended for themselves once inside the walls. The commandant of the prison was later found guilty of cruelty and hanged but in reality all he was doing was following orders (no more, no less). The north wasn’t much better with their prisoners. The museum was very well done and very interesting. In addition to the prison, there is a cemetery where many of the prisoners are buried and it has been designated a National Cemetery, where veterans of today can be buried. It was an interesting afternoon!
