Den of Misery: Indiana's Civil War Prison

"Den of Misery" is an expose of the Union's notorious Camp Morton during the American Civil War. Much has been written about the horrors of Southern Civil War prisons, but very little has been written about the deplorable conditions inside Northern prisons. While deprivation affected even the civilian population of the South, the North used it as a tool to punish their prisoners. Twenty-five years after the war, a nationally prominent physician and medical researcher who had been incarcerated at Indiana's Camp Morton levelled accusations against that prison, making clear for the first time that it was as inhumane as Andersonville. This book details the cover up and denials by prominent Union politicians and military officials, and includes a complete prisoner list.