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2221-2
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(1919-1980)
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Copy of Birds-eye view of Camp Ford, Texas. Image includes: South view, West view, Confederate Hospital, Headquarters of Col. R. R. Brown, and Capt. Braunfelter's cabin. Camp Ford started out as a training camp for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Toward the end of the war, it had become the largest Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers west of the Mississippi. The Camp was located in northeast Texas, near Tyler. (WSHS)
Camp Ford (Texas);