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Friday 23 March 2012

Jail House Shock

The Brighter Side of Prison Life - Capt. S. A. Swiggett

Yea turns out it's not all bad news after all! A true account of the Captains time in a Texan prisoner of war camp during the American Civil War.

He must have had a fine old time as he is recorded as the last ever prisoner to leave the camp. In fact some reports tell of how he had to be dragged kicking and screaming from the safety of the compound by rather bemused liberators in 1863.


Accounts vary on the conditions endured inside
Camp Ford during the American Civil War




















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