Great points machanic. It's amazing to see the faces of people when they do just what you did by looking up the facts for yourself, then discovering what somebody told you is really true!!
Perfect example of the part about "if it don't fit our our conclusions, it ain't true", even when the evidence is right in their face...
The "discovery" at Camp Lawton, in Millen, GA. The National Fish & Game Service funded this "discovery" through Georgia Southern University, in nearby Statesboro. The archeology department at GSU claims to have "discovered" the POW Camp in 2009. It wasn't "discovered by anyone, it has been a state park since the 30's (Magnolia Springs). Most everyone in southeast GA has always know it was there. I am a member of the SCV, and we were allowed access to many of the artifacts that the public will never see, such as documents and other articles that prove the slaves used in the construction of the camp were working strictly on a voluntary basis, and NOT forced to do so by anyone.
This didn't fit well with the North's account of how the camp was built, even though they weren't there when it was built. it completely dispelled that part of the story that painted Southerners as evil for forcing slaves at the butt of the whip to build a POW camp to house Northern soldiers. GSU, under pressure from the NF&G Service, decided not to make this public!
And Northerners wonder why there is still such antagonism toward them?
