Camp Morton, 1861-1865: Indianapolis Prison Camp (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
Excerpt from Camp Morton, 1861-1865: Indianapolis Prison Camp This creek was usually dry in the summer, but at the time of the spring rains it became a turbulent stream, overflowing its banks and doing damage all out of proportion to its size. During the legislative session of 1837, commissioners were appointed to study the situation and to construct a ditch large and deep enough to accommodate the water of this small stream.1 The work consisted mainly of straightening and deepening the existing bed to allow better flowage and thus do away with the occasional stagnant places which in summer became evil-smelling mudholes and breeding places for the mosquito. This improvement was called the State Ditch, and later, by the prisoners of Camp Morton, the Potomac. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0265800986
- ISBN 13 9780265800980
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages183
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