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Description. In order to house the large numbers of formerly-enslaved African Americans, the Union Army created a refugee camp for them at a location known as the Devil's Punchbowl, a natural pit surrounded by bluffs. Many of the formerly enslaved there died of starvation, smallpox, and other diseases. [1]
The truth about the Devil’s Punchbowl The barracks within a fort in Natchez, circa 1864. The barracks, or refugee camps, were built of reused material from former slave markets, with different ...
Devil's Punch Bowl. The Devil's Punch Bowl is a 282.2-hectare (697-acre) visitor attraction and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated just to the east of the village of Hindhead in the English county of Surrey. It is part of the Wealden Heaths Phase II Special Protection Area. [1][2][3][4] The Punch Bowl is a large natural ...
1960 (age 63–64) Stuttgart, West Germany. Nationality. American. Occupation. Writer. Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published seventeen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres.
Haslemere police find an unidentified sailor, bludgeoned to death on the Portsmouth Road, at the edge of the Devil's Punchbowl. He is buried in a nameless grave in Hindhead churchyard. "Ten years ago," he said, speaking with more than his ordinary deliberation, "the Haslemere police picked up a dying sailor on the Portsmouth Road."
The characters of Penn Cage, Dr. Tom Cage, and their family members appear as both central and peripheral characters in later Iles novels set in the town of Natchez. Examples are Turning Angel, The Devil's Punchbowl, Blood Memory, and Sleep No More. A trilogy of Penn Cage novels was published at the end of April 2014.
Penn Cage. Penn Cage is a fictional prosecutor turned writer created by author Greg Iles in his novel The Quiet Game (1999). Cage also appears in Iles' novels Turning Angel (2005), and The Devil's Punchbowl (2009), [1] and the novella The Death Factory (2014). He appeared in the trilogy of Natchez Burning (2014), The Bone Tree (2015), and ...
The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm (1966) Spouse. William ("Bill") Ferdinand Edwards. Signature. Website. monicaedwards.co.uk. Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) [1] was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.