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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 76 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 26 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 16 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1862., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 10 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. Johnson's Island, the new Yankee prison, not heard of till lately in the Confederate States, is thus described in the Chicago Tribune: This beautiful island, which the rebels and the Copperheads call "Lincoln's Bastile," is situated in the bosom of Lake Erie, near the west end, and in full view of Sandusky city, Ohio. Immediately after the commencement of the war the United States rented thirty acres of land lying southwest and facing upon the bay, at an annual cost of $690, during the continuance of the rebellion. They then enclosed fourteen acres with a board fence fourteen feet high, erecting within two rows of barracks which, with other buildings, officers' and soldiers' quarters, hospital and commissary accommodations, cost $40,000. By the side of the fence, four feet from the top, a platform is erected, four feet wide, that is patrolled by sentinels continually.--The number upon it is eighteen, who are re