Prisoners of Memory:
Camp Morton, Indiana, 1862 - 1865

Sources

Camp Morton Primary Sources

Burke, Curtis R. Diary:219–228. Indiana Historical Society Archives, M0903, Box 1, Folder 3.

Cunningham, S. A. Confederate Veteran XIV, no. 9 (September 1906): 394.

Dundas, W. S. “Life in Camp Morton.” Confederate Veteran XIII, no. 6 (June 1905): 265-266.

Graham, W. M. “Twenty-Sixth Mississippi Regiment.” Confederate Veteran XV, no. 4 (April 1907): 169.

Hickman, Col. John P. “Confederate Soldiers’ Experience.” Confederate Veteran XX, no. 3 (March 1912): 113.

Holloway, W.R. Treatment of Prisoners at Camp Morton: A Reply to ‘Cold Cheer at Camp Morton.’Headquarters, Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, Indianapolis: June 13, 1891.

Montgomery, J. J. “Daring Deeds of a Confederate Soldier.” Confederate Veteran VII, no. 1 (January 1898): 11-12.

Shepard, Evander “Pluck.” “Recollections of Camp Morton.” Confederate Veteran VII, no. 5 (May 1900): 211.

United States War Department. War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1899; repr. Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Press, 1971.

Wyeth, John Allen. “Cold Cheer in Camp Morton.” The Century Magazine XLII (1891).

Wyeth, John Allen. With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914.

Camp Morton Secondary Sources Sources

Hall, James R. Den of Misery: Indiana’s Civil War Prison. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2006.

Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

Winslow, Hattie Lou, and Joseph R. H. Moore. Camp Morton 1861-1865: Indianapolis Prison Camp. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society, 1995.

History and Memory

Blustein, Jeffrey. The Moral Demands of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Cubitt, Geoffrey. History and Memory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.

Dickinson, Greg, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott, eds. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Doss, Erika. Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Landsberg, Alison. Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Linenthal, Edward T. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Loewen, James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1999.

Mayo, James M. “War Memorials as Political Memory” Geographical Review, Vol. 78, No. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 62-75.

Civil War Memory Studies

Blight, David W. Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory & the American Civil War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Brown, Thomas J. The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004.

Cloyd, Benjamin G. Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Vintage Civil War Library, 2008.

Foster, Gaines M. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865-1913. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.