| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy. By Roger Pickenpaugh. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xiv, 175 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1582-5.)

In the spring of 1861, as eager recruits made their way to Ohio's capital to answer President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops, a hastily constructed encampment sprang to life about four miles west of the city. William S. Rosecrans, then colonel of the Twenty- third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, named the camp after Salmon P. Chase, who served as Lincoln's secretary of the treasury. In 1864 (when Chase resigned from the cabinet) Camp Chase housed thousands of Confederate prisoners of war. In the last months of the war (when Chase succeeded Roger B. Taney as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) prisoner exchanges rapidly emptied Camp Chase of Confederates and filled it with exchanged federal prisoners. Roger Pickenpaugh's meticulously researched and pleasantly written history of Camp Chase draws from archival resources and from the letters and diaries of the men stationed or imprisoned there to contribute a fresh perspective on the Civil War experience of the common soldier.

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