Andersonville

I was born in Alabama, so that's a dilemma.

I want to be born in Alabama over there, or I want to go be buried in Andersonville.

National Cemetery over there, you know.

And you pull up Andersonville National Cemetery, that's when the...

Is that where

President Carter is

buried? No, hell no.

He's buried up there in Plains.

He was a bizarre, fearless soldier, marching into battle clutching a pocket Bible, shouting scripture at Confederate lines, and holding prayer meetings in the middle of camps.

He survived the horrors of the Confederate prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia, emerging as a walking skeleton of only 80 pounds.

Then came the night of April 26, 1865, at Garrett's Farm near Port Royal, Virginia.

Corbett's cavalry unit had cornered John Wilkes Booth inside a wooden tobacco barn.

Now, for a short while, Corbett was celebrated as Lincoln's Avenger.

But fame turned out to be a nightmare.

The mercury poisoning in his blood, you see, and the lingering trauma of Andersonville turned into a suffocating paranoia.

Corbett became convinced that Booth's co-conspirators, secret Confederate sympathizers, and shadowy government agents were stalking him in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to slit his throat.

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