. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. FORT JOHNSON IN SANDUSKY BAY, LAKE ERIE This photograph shows one of the forts used to guard the prisoners at Johnsons Ishuid, Lake Erie. The])rison here was expected to be sufficient to accommodate the whole numlier of prisoners taken during thewar, in which, however, Quartermaster-General Meigs was much disappointed. When Lieutenant-ColonelWilliam Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners, had been ordered to Lake Erie in the fall of 1861 tosele
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. FORT JOHNSON IN SANDUSKY BAY, LAKE ERIE This photograph shows one of the forts used to guard the prisoners at Johnsons Ishuid, Lake Erie. The])rison here was expected to be sufficient to accommodate the whole numlier of prisoners taken during thewar, in which, however, Quartermaster-General Meigs was much disappointed. When Lieutenant-ColonelWilliam Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners, had been ordered to Lake Erie in the fall of 1861 toselect a prison-site, with the limitation that it must be in no higher latitude than the west end of LakeErie, in order to avoid too rigorous a climate, he reported in favor of Johnsons Island, lying in SanduskyBay, about two and a half miles from the city of Sandusky. The prison fence, enclosing about seventeenacres, had sentry posts upon the outside, while inside were rude barracks about two stories high. Thisprison was first commanded by Major W. S. Pierson, and was then under charge of Colonel Charles After the fi
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