Wood cut engraving of the Camp Ford Prison Camp, Tyler, Texas. Originally drawn by Corp. James S. McClain, F 120th Ohio, Infantry, captured on May 3, 1864, and held as a prisoner of war until the final exchange of prisoners on May 27, 1865. The inserts show: left - the camp hospital located south of the prison; center - the headquarters of Col. Reuben R. Brown, 35th Texas Cavalry, who was in command of the camp from September 1864 until the war's end, and right - the cabin of Captain Elias Fraunfelter, Co. F, 120th Ohio, Captured on the Red River, May 3, 1864, exchanged May 27, 1865. Note


Wood cut engraving of the Camp Ford Prison Camp, Tyler, Texas. Originally drawn by Corp. James S. McClain, F 120th Ohio, Infantry, captured on May 3, 1864, and held as a prisoner of war until the final exchange of prisoners on May 27, 1865. The inserts show: left - the camp hospital located south of the prison; center - the headquarters of Col. Reuben R. Brown, 35th Texas Cavalry, who was in command of the camp from September 1864 until the war's end, and right - the cabin of Captain Elias Fraunfelter, Co. F, 120th Ohio, Captured on the Red River, May 3, 1864, exchanged May 27, 1865. Note that there is an engraver's error, as the name shows as Braunfelter.


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