Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Autograph album of Union prisoners-of-war, captured at Gettysburg and the Wilderness, and held at the Confederate prison Camp Sorghum, in Columbia, South Carolina. This album measures 5”x8”, and contains 183 autographs in ink, of various soldiers, most with rank and hometown, approximately 45 pages. Complete with research on a vast majority of the soldiers, including their military stats and where they were captured. Fine condition. Camp Sorghum was a Confederate States Army prisoner of war camp located in Columbia, South Carolina during the Civil War. Established in 1862 as a makeshift prison for approximately 1,400 Union officers, Camp Sorghum consisted of a 5-acre tract of open field, without walls, fences, buildings, or any other facilities. A "deadline" was established by laying wood planks 10 feet inside the camp's boundaries. Rations consisted of cornmeal and sorghum syrup as the main staples in the diet, thus the camp became known as "Camp Sorghum". Due to the lack of any security features, escapes were common. Conditions were terrible, with little food, clothing or medicine, and disease claimed a number of lives among both the prisoners and their guards.
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