Jeff, I just yesterday returned from a trip to Andersonville. There is indeed a Monument with the spring flowing out of it. According to the account at the location, there had been a spring there all along. They think that when the stockade fence was put up the posts blocked the spring. On Aug. 14, 1864, there was a heavy rain storm and the spring again sprang forth. Some of the prisoners claim there was lightening just before it happened and many believed it was an answer to their prayers. Which it may have well been. I had two distant cousins there. One died on Aug. 16, 1864 just two days after the spring appeared. The other a few days later. Wilma, wmiller01@snet.net > > Subject: Providence Springs? > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:22:36 -0700 (MST) > From: Greg Reeves <greg@rapidnet.com> > To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com > > >From: "Jeff Dow" <jeffdow@hotmail.com> > >To: greg@rapidnet.com > >Subject: Providence Springs? > >Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 16:24:35 PST > > > >I visited Andersonville when I was a little boy, and I seem to remember > >visiting a memorial or market where lightening had struck a rock and > >uncovered a spring........which then sustained prisoners thrown into > >open pits without water in the hot Georgia sun. > > > >I hear this was called Providence Springs? Do you know where I can get > >the full story on this? > > > >Jeff Dow