[Music] so you guys already know who I am this is Carolina's Tony there there today we're in Andersonville Georgia Andersonville Georgia is famous for its Civil War prison so we're gonna go check out the prison also a few of the museums around it this town was established in 1853 around a prisoner of war camp here this is a pretty cool old town here we're gonna go in and check out the store it says drummer boy Museum as soon as you come in the door they have these uniforms here that's naval uniform there you can tell it's really old and looks really cool this is telegraph cable from the Civil War that's awesome along with some other telegraph artifacts here this bonnet here belonged to Mary Surratt Mary Surratt was hung as a conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln it's really cool that they have that here this case here is filled with weapons and it's more on like these officer field glasses those are really cool all these pistols there's some artillery fuses there an officer spyglass here's a piece of a tree with a bullet lodged in it that was taken from Gettysburg well I bet those kurz sitting right there on that shelf I bet they're not any good anymore nor of those cigars here on the top rattle alarm I know you've been to the doctor today and everybody has to go get your flu shots and all that stuff and you see what our needles our syringes and needles look like today here's one from the Civil War look how round that tip is shoulder tassels and binoculars here Civil War drumstick found at Shiloh some more shoulder tassels a black leather map case 1863 officers field Lantern that thing right there that is a twist of tobacco and here they have all their uniforms these uniforms are actually worn in Civil War they're not reproductions or recreations the cannon wheel rim found in Gettysburg canteen found in Gettysburg Remington Army revolver was dug up at bloody pond at Shiloh they even have a depiction of a lady's fashion from 1860 this wasn't full of beer this was a water cask this actually came off of the USS Hartford there's another Confederate canteen there at the bottom here is a medical officer's pocket surgical kit US Army individual addressing packet there to the right and the the jawbone with a bullet in it right there this is a model of Andersonville Prison the detail they put into it with all those people there's even a group standing around a fire right there so we've wrapped up here at the drum avoid museum beautiful sweet now we've traveled over to the peel W Museum and the side of the Andersonville Prison this prisoner of war museum is not just for the Civil War it's for all the wars for example this picture here is of the first Americans taken prisoner during World War one this outfit here was what prisoners were given here at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War coffee cubes and a mug made from butter on a butter can this is a soap box total paper from a Japanese Pio wkm and a zinc pocket mirror used here in Andersonville Prison they weren't given shoes so they had to come up with ingenious ways to protect their feet by making talk to slipper this was a some handmade clogs worn by fern Harrington Camp Holmes and the Philippines and these straw sandals were worn in the Japanese powa ant by George Mayberry this is really cool this is the original lock and key from here where we are Andersonville Prison well check this out there's a look inside of a prison cell he has no Luna and his legs are strapped down to the table so he can't move here's another prison seal here oh wait it's Tony what are you doing at prison man what'd you do yeah it's lunchtime where they could have been killed inside of this bamboo cage here you see here this bamboo prison sometimes they would strap their legs down here as well but also at the same time sometimes they would put as many as 12 men inside of this little bamboo cage they would fit 12 men inside of there breaking the rules resulted in punishment at Andersonville used these a series of ball and change by which already weak and starving prisoners could be manacled in rows they would also use these to bind their hands together as a form of torture this is kind of an interesting area we're walking up to this there's a ladder that leads up to an upper deck with some kind of furnace up there oh it's a prisoner who was trying to escape less than 1% of using print of Union prisoners of war and Andersonville made successful escapes many others tried and failed those who succeeded did so by running away while on work detail not by tunneling most tunnel is either caved in or were tipped off to Confederate guards by the turncoats that's it for the prisoner of war Museum now we're gonna head over here and check out the actual prison itself the location of the prison carolina's Tony in case you're wondering we met up through Dave Hughes channel and decided to get together I will put a link in the description box below where you can go over to his channel also at the very end of the video I will tag him to the end of it so you can just click on his picture and go over and check out his channel he he does a lot of exploring videos and checking new places out just like we do so we have traveled over to the Andersonville Prison site now they have some of it reconstructed here behind us this place was absolutely massive the majority of this prison is no longer standing but they have recreated it in certain spots so you can kind of get a feel for what it would have been like as this depiction here shows this structure here is a recreation of the north gate the north entrance into the prison this is a very cool building here this is called Providence spring so Providence spring here behind me actually has a pretty cool story on in August of 1864 there was a storm a lightning storm is really bad storm and suddenly water just water just suddenly started gushing out of the hillside you know at that point in time the prisoners were desperate for fresh water already and over time that event actually became legendary you know who would figure water pouring out of the size of mountain would become legendary but it did you know several people from that time claimed to have seen lightning strike the area right before the water started spraying out men were dying from not having water and God answered their prayers you can see here all these white posts sticking out of the ground those were the actual edges of the complex of the prison they have a marked with those white poles the poles to the right were the outer wall the post of the left with the inner wall you many of you remember my abandoned Cahaba video where we saw the snake well look at this sign that does not make me happy at all venomous snakes in area this is the entrance to the compound from this side over here they have this depiction here of Andersonville Prison and like I showed you a minute ago the white post where was this outer fence on the right and the inner fence will be here in this place was a slam packed full of people if you had business if you had business or something to attend to inside the prison you would have had to enter from right here on this side to get into it and it would it looked exactly like this he would come through one gate into this open area where you probably would have encountered a few people and then you would had to walk through another gate to actually enter the prison which would have been here here's a picture here that's depicting life inside of the prison as I said a minute ago you can see how ridiculously overcrowded it was [Music] [Applause] [Music] in June of 1864 the prison was so immensely overcrowded they had to build more of the prisons so they built on an expansion yeah if you got in trouble in the prison this is where you came you got put in this stockade here with your hands pretty much handcuffed to the inside there and you basically got to sit out here and bake in the Sun for days at a time as a guard who was standing here in this tower looked over the top of them here you can see the prison wall the inner and outer walls of the prison marked by those white posts there those platforms there where the guards would stand was called pigeon roost and not only did guards stand there but sometimes even local townspeople would come just to gawk and laugh make fun of the prisoners stay inside of here you can see that inside of the prison this rail here to the inside but this is what prison was the lie during that time for the Union soldiers who are incarcerated here they basically had a tarp or a little piece of fabric thrown over the top of some sticks and that's all that protected them from the element understand and time well that's gonna do it for here at Andersonville Prison I'm gonna thank Tony for coming along on the ride but actually Tony and I are gonna meet up again tomorrow for another episode but we really did enjoy this this whole complex it's really a good place to see so I definitely recommend it if you're in this area I want to thank you all for watching and I'll see you again tomorrow [Music] [Music]