anjou wrote:Wirz's execution was extremely tragic.
Mickey3D wrote:As a Swiss citizen I first thought I could not participate to this thread but I discovered the following document : It seems a lot of my fellow countrymen fought with the Union. But above all I hope I would not have become like Heinrich Wirz the commander of Andersonville prisonner camp .
Edit : When I write "thought I could note participate" I mean : thought that none of my compatriots were involved in the war.
havi wrote:I would probably been living in Minnesota or Wisconsin because there where the large Scandinavian population and maybe been working in small shop there. I would been drafted to the union army some Minnesotan company served in west got wounded couple of time and been mentally destroyed by end of the war and become the village idiot.
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