2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2021
Mounted albumen photo, 7-1/2" 5-1/4" with printed label on the mount, 'MILITARY PRISON, CAMP MORTON, Indianapolis Indiana". The winter scene image shows the Confederate prisoners milling in the camp. The Indiana State Fair Grounds, established in 1852 on 36 acres of the old Henderson Farm, on the north side of Indianapolis, became Camp Morton in 1861, a recruitment and training depot for Indiana volunteers. It quickly, but never formally, became known as Camp Morton. The camp was named for Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton. Between the captured prisoners of the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and August of that same year, it became a prison for 3,000 Confederates taken at the fort and was personally administered by Governor Morton. As a P.O.W. facility, the camp was not any different from other prisons except that its prison buildings were unique in appearance. The Victorian architecture of its prominent structures at the entrance, complete with gingerbread trim, gave the camp, in the beginning of its existence, a somewhat cheerful appearance.
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