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• Pat Shingleton: "Camp Sumter and a Bolt of Lightning"

  September 4, 2019 12:04 AM

  Camp Sumter was opened by the Confederacy in Andersonville, Georgia, in March 1864. A 17-foot high stockade was built on 16.5 acres, sandwiched between two hillsides. The "Stockade Branch" stream wound through the hillsides and provided water for the inmates. Prisoners would scoop water from the stream with tin cups... more »

• Pat Shingleton: "Looking Back - 13 Years Ago..."

  August 29, 2019 11:57 PM

  Here's an archived column from August 30, 2006. "After Katrina made landfall we shifted our coverage to the parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain. Before the Noon hour, on that day, I returned home to start a generator. Wind speeds were running between 40 and 50 miles per hour as I... more »