Camp Butler Confederate prison, near Springfield, Illinois was founded on August 2, 1861, as a training ground for Union troops. It was composed of three separate encampments plus a fifteen acre site upon which the Confederate soldiers were confined. Of 5,178 confederate prisoners held at Camp Butler in 1862 and 1863, 201 escaped and 866 died. On February 22nd, 1862, the first of the Camp Butler prisoners, captured at the battle of Fort Donnelson, Tennessee, were transported to Springfield by steamboat and train On April 8th, 1862, the 1st Alabama regiment was made prisoners of war at island...
Camp Butler Confederate prison, near Springfield, Illinois was founded on August 2, 1861, as a training ground for Union troops. It was composed of th...
County Down, named after its county town, Downpatrick, is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the northeast of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the southeast shore of Lough Neagh, It is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, lying within the province of Ulster. More than 9000 years ago, the first settlers arrived on the shores of Strangford Lough in County Down. St Patrick is said to have waded ashore at the mouth of the Slaney River, near Strangford Lough's entrance. It was from the area around Strangford Lough that Patrick's followers spread...
County Down, named after its county town, Downpatrick, is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the northeast of the island of I...