U.S. Prison Camps Sites

[Gypsy Heart]

The U.S. has employed prison camps of one sort or another since the Revolutionary War, when British soldiers were interned in locations like a York, Pa., camp which held about 1,500 prisoners and their families. Revolutionary era camps were relatively benign compared to what the term invokes today, at least for the British, and Native Americans were more often driven West than imprisoned in this period.
Through the first century of U.S. history, the major internment issue affecting Americans was slavery, which for all intents and purposes created a series of forced labor camps across the country, but without the centralized location, i.e., the "concentration" of prisoners.

The first major prison camp operations in the U.S. came during the Civil War. Starting in 1863, both the North and the South began holding large numbers of prisoners. Before 1864, there had been some provisions for the exchange and release of captured soldiers, but these talks broke down when the Confederates refused to treat black soldiers they had captured on an equal footing with white prisoners. The Confederacy wanted to treat former slaves, who has been enlisted by Union forces, as escapees rather than prisoners of war, which the Union found unacceptable, or at least that was the story. .

Even though some of these are protected from treasure hunters...many of the sites ,like with forts,only a certain amount of land was actually retained by the government and the areas surrounding the prisons sites had considerable travel and can be hunted with permission...


Andersonville
http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/

Belle Island, James River, Richmond
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi.../PrisonsParolesAndPOWs/belleislandprison.html

Camp Chase, Ohio
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/5109/history.html

Camp Douglas, Chicago
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...cities.com/BourbonStreet/2757/issues/camp.htm

Camp Ford, Texas
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...n=militaryhistory&zu=http://www.campford.org/

Charleston
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...n=militaryhistory&zu=http://www.campford.org/

Danville,VA
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...la.com/sims-mitchell/local/articles/phsp/008/

Elmira NY
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...zu=http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/elmiraprison/

Florence SC
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...://home.att.net/~florencestockade/friends.htm

Deleware
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...litaryhistory&zu=http://www.del.net/org/fort/

Florida
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...tp://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/jefferson.html

Baltimore
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ory&zu=http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/cw2b.html

Ohio
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...u=http://www.heidelberg.edu/~dbush/index.html

VA
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi.../members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/libby.htm

Ojhio State Pen
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...zu=http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/ohio.html

Washington DC
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...epages.military.rootsweb.com/~pa91/cmocp.html

Point Lookout MD
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ents.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/NP/Point.html

Richmonds Castle Thunder
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/castlethund.html

Rock Island Iowa / Illinois
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi....rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/plac_hist/hist-cp.htm

 

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[oldbill]

Hi Gypsyheart, I have worked this little fort in years past in Ks. found a fair amount of old coils and odds and ends. Also found an old cemetery no one knew about! Bill

Fort Lincoln.?Goodlander, in his "Memoirs and Recollections of the Early Days of Fort Scott," says: "In the summer of 1861 Jim Lane had built a fort on the north side of the Osage river, and named it Fort Lincoln. It was built on low bottom land that was no more a fit place for a fort than where Knapp's park is now located. This fort consisted of a stockade and a large blockhouse. In later years this stockade and blockhouse were moved to Fort Scott and located about the junction of Lowman and First streets."