Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia was a German-American internment camp in Catoosa County, Georgia, during and after World War I. Facilities at the fort were used to detain some 4,000 enemy military personnel,
Gates at the entrance to the Fort Oglethorpe POW camp (May 1919)
Memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site
John R. Rathom
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John Revelstoke Rathom was an Australian-born American journalist, editor, and writer based in Rhode Island and employed as the editor of The Providence Journal at the height of his career. In the yea
Fort Oglethorpe (prisoner-of-war camp)
…Richard Benedict Goldschmidt, biologist Dr. Isaac Strauss, and Professor Zenneck. Dr. Karl Muck was falsely accused by unscrupulous newspaper editor John R. Rathom of having refused a request to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" in an October 1917 concert. Despite having been unaware of the request at the time…
Portrait of John R. Rathom.