Sunday January 8, 2011

At 8:30AM I wrote a thank you note to my cousins. They were all sleeping as I hit the rode.

After Mass, I decided to visit the site of the most notorious Civil War prison in the south. It is called Fort
Sumptner or Andersonville. Family lore has it that one of our ancestor’s was imprisoned at Andersonville. I checked. There is no record a John Tarsney being detained there. Although the park ranger said that the confederate did not maintain proper records so he could have been there. The memorial is just a huge field! There were no prison buildings. just a big open field with a little stockade. The confederates kept prisoners in a big field out in the middle of nowhere. They did not feed them properly and many of the prisoners died from malnutrition. My relative escaped. His story is fascinating.

After visiting the prison, I drove to Fort Pierce, FL. I arrived a the boat at 9:30PM. I called Sandy and told her that I had arrived safely.

I cleared the aft bunk. Rolled out my sleeping bag and went to sleep.