I'm with you Robert. Being at Andersonville and hearing the roll called would be so moving. I'm sure just visiting it will be moving. My cousin was recently there and is supposed to send me some pictures. My g-grandfather was captured at Nickajack Trace and held at Andersonville for 11 months and 10 days, then sent to a prison in Florence, S.C. His pension papers state: "That I have never recovered from scurvy from which I suffered nor fever from which I suffered and further from the hardships of prison life such as starvation and exposure. That I had scurvy at Andersonville and fever at Florence and nearly died at Florence of the fever. The boys left me for near dead when they left Florence." This man, Benjamin Web Noe, enlisted from Illinois (92nd Infantry) and upon his discharge came to Iowa and bought land in Benton Co. He built a big farm house in which my husband and I now live and these farms have been in the family since 1865. I have always felt such a closeness to this man, though obviously never met him. I sometimes wonder if his spirit doesn't come back for a visit now and then. Bless him. Ilene One Kreider krinkjfk@netins.net