View single post by David White

Posted: Wed Oct 4th, 2006 03:38 pm

For websites see:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/qcc15.html

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/ford/index.html

(I know the first two are teasip sites but sometimes the blind pig finds an acorn)

http://www.campford.org/

Eyewitness account (book on-line)

http://www.48ovvi.org/oh48cf.html

To show the Aggies are doing the real work:

http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/061998-1.html

and

What it looks like today:

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc/campford1.htm

If you are looking for a book, some guy named Johnny Boggs wrote an award winning historical novel called Camp Ford (I don't know a thing about it, however). But for history, the best thing you can do is get Portals to Hell by Lonnie Speer that covers all Civil War prisons but has pretty good coverage of Camp Ford.