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Another observation. Andersonville was described in detail and with photographs. The only mention of the other civil war prison camps was that Andersonville was the worst. Not a word regarding Elmira, Camp Douglass, Ft. Delaware, etc. Elmira and Camp Douglass had similar death rates as Andersonville. In addition, the guards at Andersonville had extremely high death rates. I had ancestors who died in Andersonville, Camp Douglass, Ft. Delaware and Elmira. Also, Winder was a distant relative. As I've told others, my family doesn't do well in pow camps.It's that very lack of balance in Mr. Burns work that tends to annoy me. It's in everything he does. Jazz=no mention of great jazz guitarists such as Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery etc. Yet Louis Armstrong gets a ridiculas ammount of credit as a founder of the genre. The War=central theme revolves around his perception of WW2 America as a racist nation etc(which of course is true to an extent but he beat it to death).
Doc C
I love his skills as a film maker but I think he is less than objective and tends to allow his sympathies/biases to overshadow historical integrity.
After all he did appear in Gettysburg as a Northern Officer.