ShareCS military rents the land and barracks for Camp Ford, Texas, for 1863
At this point Camp Ford is a training camp for Texas troops, but by the autumn of 1863 the first prisoners of war will arrive. Camp Ford will continue to house POWs captured in the lower Trans-Mississippi until late May, 1865.
Found in Confederate Citizens File
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