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Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio.It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War.
[4] [5] He was twice captured by Union forces, the second time sent as a prisoner of war to Johnson's Island Prison Camp in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. [5] He claimed he was later paroled by President Lincoln because of pleas for mercy from his mother but this was merely an anecdote he often repeated to dinner guests, according to historian Roger Long.
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Johnson's Island: Lake Erie, Sandusky, Ohio [19] Union Ohio Penitentiary: Columbus, Ohio [20] Union Old Capitol Prison: Washington, DC [21] Union Point Lookout: Saint Mary's County, Maryland [22] Union Rock Island Prison: Rock Island, Illinois: A U.S. Government owned island in the Mississippi River [23] Union Camp Morton: Indianapolis, Indiana ...
Thompson was captured in August in Arkansas, and spent time in St. Louis' Gratiot Military Prison, as well as at the Fort Delaware and Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camps ("Poor old Jeff, how my heart went out to him; he a prisoner and his devoted wife in a madhouse", Major Lamar Fontaine wrote later). [5] Thompson as a POW c. 1864
Archer, along with many other officers captured at Gettysburg, was eventually sent to the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp on the coast of Lake Erie, where his health rapidly declined due to exposure to the inclement Ohio weather. He wrote a letter to the Confederate War Department in which he advocated a plot to overthrow the guards, but ...
Kennedy was one of a very small number of people to escape from Johnson's Island Prison. When the war began, Kennedy entered Confederate service, joining the First Louisiana Regulars as a lieutenant. He fought at the Battle of Shiloh, receiving a wound that left him with a permanent limp.
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