. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d, however: and in February, 1863, out of 3884 pris-oners, 387 died. This mortality rate, almost exactly ten percent, for the month, was not reached in any month, in any otherlarge prison during the war, so far as the Official Records indicate. Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, was another instructioncamp turned into a prison to accommodate the prisoners cap-tured at Forts Henry and Donelson, in February, 1862, andused as such until the end of the war. Conditions here were sim-ilar to those at Camp Morton in general features, as were
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d, however: and in February, 1863, out of 3884 pris-oners, 387 died. This mortality rate, almost exactly ten percent, for the month, was not reached in any month, in any otherlarge prison during the war, so far as the Official Records indicate. Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, was another instructioncamp turned into a prison to accommodate the prisoners cap-tured at Forts Henry and Donelson, in February, 1862, andused as such until the end of the war. Conditions here were sim-ilar to those at Camp Morton in general features, as were alsothose at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois, which was,however, abandoned for prison purposes in 1862. After the suspension of the agreement to exchange pris-oners, May 25, 1863, the numbers in confinement began to ex-ceed the provision made for them, and in May, 1864, some bar-racks on the Chemung River near Elmira, New York, wereenclosed for prison purposes. Before the end of August, thenumber of prisoners reached almost ten thousand. Conditions 1. FORT JOHNSON IN SANDUSKY BAY, LAKE ERIE This photograph shows one of the forts used to guard the prisoners at Johnsons Island, Lake Erie. Theprison here was expected to be sufficient to accommodate the whole number 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 18G1 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
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