I'm John Batchel with Professor Fitzhue-Brandage.

The book is a fate worse than hell.

What happened to?

The mass graves become contentious. It's flabbergasting to me, Professor, that there's any pushback in the South about the mass graves, and that the reburials or the identification becomes willy-nilly,

not a matter of the state concern, not a matter of the Washington concern or Congress.

Where are the bones today of Andersonville?

Where are they of point lookout?

What remains?

What remains is, yes, I think one of the most poignant illustrations of how

uneasy the memory of these prison camps has proven to be. So the story of the remains varies from

place to place. And Camp Chase was a union prison for Confederates

in Columbus, Ohio. And Camp Chase, what happened there was Confederates were buried in a,

there was a Confederate burial ground, and that burial ground, when the camps were

torn down and used for other purposes after the Civil War, that Confederate burial ground

became essentially surrounded by a residential neighborhood, which is now not downtown

Columbus, but much closer to it than it was during the war. And you can still go to the Confederate

burial ground within this neighborhood, but it's effectively lost to, you know, you literally have to

seek it out. But that's much better than what happened at, for example, point lookout and at

Camp Douglas. Camp Douglas was the major prison in Chicago. And Camp Douglas, the Confederates were buried with some degree

of order and attention, I say some, apparently. But then after the great Chicago fire and the

growth of Chicago, the decision was made to clean out that burial ground and the Confederate bodies, the Confederate

names were essentially forced into a mass grave that is now a mound in a park in Chicago.

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