More than 20,000 individuals are buried in Andersonville National Cemetery. Each of these men, women, and children has a unique story behind them. A Story in Stone is a video series produced by park staff to highlight some of the people buried here, or connected to the cemetery. Each one of these videos shares a unique story of loss, mourning, and sacrifice.
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Andersonville is a place where we mourn, but it's also a place where loved ones are at long last reunited.
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- 2 minutes, 16 seconds
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John Bickell died in the very place he'd struggled to survive.
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- 2 minutes, 3 seconds
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Arthur Ford's family helped birth a nation, and when that nation was ripped apart, his family's ties proved stronger than politics.
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- 2 minutes, 52 seconds
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Andersonville killed Joel Eaton. But before he died he made a decision with permanent consequences, and he is not buried in the national cemetery.
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- 2 minutes, 4 seconds
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President Ronald Reagan spoke at the memorial service for Clinton Smith and his comrades.
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- 1 minute, 45 seconds
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Floyd Thompson spent 9 years as a POW. His memorial marker is in the same cemetery where 13,000 American prisoners of war are laid to rest.
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- 2 minutes, 5 seconds
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Charlie Upson isn't buried at Andersonville. But his mother heard of Clara Barton's work at Andersonville, and hoped that she would go mark Charlie's grave.
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- 2 minutes, 40 seconds
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Marion Mathews died 70 years ago, but his family honors his memory everyday at Andersonville National Cemetery.
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- 1 minute, 44 seconds
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On December 31, 1863 Samuel Melvin made a New Years Resolution to keep a diary in hopes that one day someone might take pleasure in reading it. 150 years later, in the summer of 2014, his wish was fulfilled, as thousands of people followed his diary on the Andersonville National Historic Site Facebook page. Samuel became a window into the tragedy of captivity - a human face to the hopes and dreams that were lost at Andersonville. He died on September 25, 1864.
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- 4 minutes, 8 seconds
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Ranger Stephanie shares her story of Alvin Coffin, who died at Andersonville in August of 1864
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- 1 minute, 28 seconds
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When Roland Harrell was taken prisoner in 1942, his family was unaware of his fate.
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- 2 minutes, 20 seconds
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Joseph Burke journeyed across an ocean and across a continent in search of a new life. Instead, he found death in a southern prison.
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- 1 minute, 32 seconds
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John Jameson's finest work went unpainted.
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- 3 minutes, 18 seconds
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On Memorial Day, 1868, a young girl remembered her father's death at Andersonville by honoring a Confederate's death.
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- 1 minute, 45 seconds
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101 years after Andersonville Prison closed, it again received nation attention - this time with the burial of a young soldier killed in Vietnam.
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- 2 minutes, 2 seconds
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Bryant Newcomb died at Andersonville, and his family contacted Clara Barton in 1865 in hopes of finding closure.
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- 1 minute, 43 seconds
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For Daniel Sanders, freedom came at great cost.
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- 1 minute, 41 seconds
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"December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy." These words likely provided little comfort to Ted Croft's family.
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- 2 minutes, 5 seconds
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Bernard Hicks was a Bostonian who joined the Air Corps at the start of World War I.
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- 1 minute, 38 seconds
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Captain Jack Batchelor's demonstrated tremendous resiliency in captivity in World War II.
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- 1 minute, 32 seconds
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