Andersonville the Movie Essay Research Paper Five — страница 2

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walls. He was the first one out and the only one to escape. The ones who didn?t escape were put in the stocks for a week if not killed on sight. Lumber Jim was a giant of a man, whose anger was taken out on the raiders. He was the one who got together the rest of the camp to take down the raiders. Even though his anger was out of control it did end up stopping the thieves. The raiders were a group of savages whose only way of living was to rob fellow soldiers, they would get new soldiers (prisoners/fresh fish) and would leave them out in the open where they would kill and rob them. After Lumber Jim?s rebellion the raiders were captured and even had a trial to convict them, which is what happened. The six ringleaders were hung but one the sixth?s rope broke and they had to re-hang

them. In the Prison camps cemetery, the six ringleaders graves stand alone from the rest.