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
Portrait of John R. Rathom.
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,
John R. Rathom
…Rathom's accusations at face value and were furious with Muck, who, along with 26 of the orchestra's musicians, was accordingly arrested and interned at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, until he and his wife agreed to be deported in the summer of 1919. Also in late 1917, the U.S. Department of Justice made it clear to Rathom…
Gates at the entrance to the Fort Oglethorpe POW camp (May 1919)
Memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site