CAMP MORTON
1861-1865
INDIANAPOLIS PRISON CAMP
BY HATTIE LOU WINSLOW and JOSEPH R. H. MOORE
FIRST EDITION
FINE CONDITION
Protected in a clear, clean, acid-free, archival sleeve with paperboard backing.
Original, Clean, Tight, Antique Booklet
Contains Illustrations and Period Photographs; Appendix
PUBLISHED BY INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 1940
This wonderful, First Edition booklet constitutes a history of Camp Morton, Union Civil War Prisoner-of-War camp. The camp was a prison for Confederate soldiers. Initially it served as a military training ground, it was converted into a Prisoner-of-War camp after the fall of Fort Donelson and the Battle of Shiloh. The first Confederate prisoners arrived at Camp Morton on February 22, 1862; its last prisoners were paroled on June 12, 1865.
Camp Morton was among the largest of the Union's eight prison camps established for Confederate noncommissioned officers and privates. During the course of the war, it’s condition significantly deteriorated leading to the death of many prisoners. Between 1862 and 1865, the camp's average prison population was 3,214; it averaged fifty deaths per month. Its maximum prison population reached 4,999 in July 1864. More than 1,700 prisoners died at the camp during its four years of operation. The remains of 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors who died while prisoners at the camp are interred at the nearby cemetery used by the camp. The individual gravesites were marked with wooden boards bearing painted identification numbers that were worn away by the passage of time.
The book discusses the camps roll as a Training Camp in 1861, its role as a Prisoners’ Camp under Richard Owen in 1862, David Garland Rose and Exchanges and Paroles in 1862, its use as an emergency hospital in 1862, its reorganization under Colonel Stevens in 1863-1864, and its last years of operation in 1864-1865.
The book also contains an Appendix with an Abstract of Monthly Returns from Camp Morton, Deaths from Certain Diseases and Classes of Disease at Camp Morton from June 1863 to June 1865, Rations Reductions from 1864-1865, and an Abstract of Subsistence Stores issued to Rebel Prisoners at Camp Morton in 1864
This original, first edition, antique booklet is in excellent overall condition. The book comes protected in a clear, archival sleeve with sturdy paperboard backing (see photo). The exterior and in interior are clean and in excellent condition. The book has solid binding throughout The pages are in excellent condition. There isn’t a mark in the book; it has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. 145 pages. The booklet is illustrated throughout. An excellent condition, uncommon book on Camp Morton during the Civil War.
CAMP MORTON 1861-1865 INDIANAPOLIS PRISON CAMP
BY HATTIE LOU WINSLOW and JOSEPH R. H. MOORE
FIRST EDITION
FINE CONDITION
Protected in a clear, clean, acid-free, archival sleeve with paperboard backing. Original, Clean, Tight, Antique Booklet
Contains Illustrations and Period Photographs; Appendix
PUBLISHED BY INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 1940
This wonderful, First Edition booklet constitutes a history of Camp Morton, Union Civil War Prisoner-of-War camp. The camp was a prison for Confederate soldiers. Initially it served as a military training ground, it was converted into a Prisoner-of-War camp after the fall of Fort Donelson and the Battle of Shiloh. The first Confederate prisoners arrived at Camp Morton on February 22, 1862; its last prisoners were paroled on June 12, 1865.
Camp Morton was among the largest of the Union's eight prison camps established for Confederate noncommissioned officers and privates. During the course of the war, it’s condition significantly deteriorated leading to the death of many prisoners. Between 1862 and 1865, the camp's average prison population was 3,214; it averaged fifty deaths per month. Its maximum prison population reached 4,999 in July 1864. More than 1,700 prisoners died at the camp during its four years of operation. The remains of 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors who died while prisoners at the camp are interred at the nearby cemetery used by the camp. The individual gravesites were marked with wooden boards bearing painted identification numbers that were worn away by the passage of time.
The book discusses the camps roll as a Training Camp in 1861, its role as a Prisoners’ Camp under Richard Owen in 1862, David Garland Rose and Exchanges and Paroles in 1862, its use as an emergency hospital in 1862, its reorganization under Colonel Stevens in 1863-1864, and its last years of operation in 1864-1865.
The book also contains an Appendix with an Abstract of Monthly Returns from Camp Morton, Deaths from Certain Diseases and Classes of Disease at Camp Morton from June 1863 to June 1865, Rations Reductions from 1864-1865, and an Abstract of Subsistence Stores issued to Rebel Prisoners at Camp Morton in 1864
This original, first edition, antique booklet is in excellent overall condition. The book comes protected in a clear, archival sleeve with sturdy paperboard backing (see photo). The exterior and in interior are clean and in excellent condition. The book has solid binding throughout The pages are in excellent condition. There isn’t a mark in the book; it has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. 145 pages. The booklet is illustrated throughout. An excellent condition, uncommon book on Camp Morton during the Civil War.
