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Camp Ford was a POW camp near Tyler, Texas, during the American Civil War. [1] It was the largest Confederate -run prison west of the Mississippi . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
English: This map illustrates the layout of Andersonville Prison, as Sneden refers to the Confederate prison camp, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Captain Henry Wirz, roads in and out, topographical features such as swampland, a graveyard presumed to ...
"Prison Life at Andersonville," Civil War History (1962) 8#2 pp. 121–35 in Project MUSE; Futch, Ovid. History of Andersonville Prison (1968) Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot (University of North Carolina Press, 1994) excerpt and text search; Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy (2013) pp ...
Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly.
The Andersonville Raiders were a prison gang of Union POWs incarcerated at the Confederate Andersonville Prison during the American Civil War.Led by their chieftains – Charles Curtis, John Sarsfield, Patrick Delaney, Teri Sullivan (aka "WR Rickson", according to other sources), William Collins, and Alvin T. Munn – these soldiers terrorized their fellow POWs, stealing their possessions and ...
Earlier this month, the National Park Service announced the organization would receive a grant of $149,501.59 to fund its project, titled “The Pen at Camp Security: Mapping a Revolutionary War ...
At 3.2 miles is the intersection with Loop 323. The site of Camp Ford, a Confederate POW camp during the Civil War, is encompassed by a former TxDOT picnic area now maintained by Smith County at this junction. The SH 155 concurrency ends at 8 miles, near the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler.
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