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September, 2007
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Den of Misery
Indiana's Civil War Prison

By James R. Hall
(Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. 159. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.)

In 1859, the State Board of Agriculture ordered the construction of a state fairground on thirty-six acres of land on the north edge of Indianapolis. Barns and sheds would hold the livestock, and a few administrative buildings were erected. In April 1861, this site became Camp Morton, where thousands of new volunteers, answering President Lincoln's call to arms, camped and drilled. 1
      Not until early 1862, after the fall of Forts Henry and Donalson in Tennessee, did Camp Morton become the repository of more than 3,000 Confederate prisoners of war. In Den of Misery, James R. Hall reminds us that during the Civil War, the North was as capable of inflicting degradation and humiliation on its captive combatants in places like Camp Morton, as was the South at sites such as Andersonville. 2
      The author is a career journalist and freelance writer, interested primarily in resurrecting the controversy surrounding wartime conditions at Camp Morton. He dismisses as "a scholarly undertaking ... no more, no less," the 1940 Camp Morton, 1861–1865, written by Indianapolis school teachers Hattie Lou Winslow and Joseph R. H. Moore. . . .
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