Uncle Tom's Punch Bowl !

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Another shining example of stuff the history book's don't mention !

  

                      Concentration Camps.

( From WJTV /  Jacob Kittilstad )
People mostly associate the term with Nazi Germany but historians say - it's true - they also existed in America.
During the Civil War authorities in Natchez, Mississippi forced tens of thousands of freed slaves into camps built in what's known as "The Devil's Punchbowl", local historians said.
Untouched fruit falls to the ground near the banks of the Mississippi River around a bend in Adams County, researcher Paula Westbrook said.
"They talk about there's the most beautiful wild peach groves down in the punch bowls," Westbrook said.And like a peach, the area known as "The Devil's Punchbowl" has a pit: a mass grave from the 1860's, Westbrook, who co-founded Delta Paranormal Research, said.Historians estimate that in one year following Union troops' arrivals in Natchez, up to 20,000 freed slaves died in "contraband camps" below steep bluffs.
"When the slaves were released from the plantations during the occupation they overran Natchez. And the population went from about 10,000 to 120,000 overnight," Westbrook said. Her research included searching through Adams County Sheriff's reports from the time."So they decided to build an encampment for 'em at Devil's Punchbowl which they walled off and wouldn't let 'em out," Don Estes, former director of the Natchez City Cemetery, said.
Estes said that history research is his life. During his studies he said he learned that Union troops ordered re-captured black men to perform hard labor. Women and children were all but left to die in the three "punchbowls"."Disease broke out among 'em, smallpox being the main one. And thousands and thousand died. They were begging to get out. 'Turn me loose and I'll go home back to the plantation! Anywhere but there'," Estes said."But they wouldn't let 'em out," Estes said.
Westbrook adds that, "The union army did not allow them to remove the bodies from the camp. They just gave 'em shovels and said bury 'em where they drop.
"It's a bed of alligators and snakes. It would take Indiana Jones, at this point, to get back in there," Westbrook said. "Then you come on up the bluffs, the washing away bluffs, and there's the devil's punchbowl that has so many people that no one knows how they got killed or when," Estes said. "And they're still down there. Wasted," Estes said.
"And even to this day they talk about wild peach trees that come up down there but no one in Natchez will eat 'em because they know what the fertilizer was," Westbrook said.
Even now locals might discover old skeletal remains after flooding on the Mississippi River. But, being on the Natchez Trace, sometimes it's difficult to tell which century the bones are from.

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It's no wonder the Yankee controlled text books we are given in school fail to mention this !

UPDATE

I sent an RFI to -- info@natchezhistoricalsociety.org This Just In ----     Dear Dave, As far as I know there is no documentation that any such incident with respect to the Devil's Punch Bowl ever took place. I think this falls into the realm of fantasy. Thanks for contacting us. Gary O'Neal Natchez Historical Society