Prisoners-of-war

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While some American captives languished, others conducted a flourishing market—and a huge black sailor organized everything</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Charles Hopkins </span></span>received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Gaines’ Mill, but his toughest fight was <span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">trying to survive at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. He left this never-before-published record.</span> </span></p>

<p>As the war was coming to an end, we asked the German guards if we could hold a ceremony in Roosevelt’s honor.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The final hours of the war were every bit as perilous as all the other ones for this American POW.</span></p>

<p>British jailers murdered American prisoners several months after the end of the War of 1812 in the last act of hostility between the U.K. and the United States.</p>