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Related Historical Markers
By Bernard Fisher, March 31, 2013
Civil War POW Camp Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| 1 ► Virginia, Richmond, Belle and Mayo Islands — Civil War POW Camp — Reported permanently removed |
| You are looking at the nationally significant site of the notorious Belle Isle prisoner-of-war camp where during the Civil War thousands of captured U.S. soldiers were confined. After the war began in 1861, military prisoners jammed . . . — — Map (db m270199) HM | |||
| 2 ► Virginia, Richmond, Belle and Mayo Islands — Cannon over the Camp — Reported permanently removed |
| The Belle Isle prisoner-of-war camp that stood before you here was a prison without walls. Federal soldiers were confined by the James River and by the low earthen "dead line," such as the one replicated in front of you, surrounding the camp. . . . — — Map (db m270198) HM | |||