Right now Johnson Island is the news here in Ohio. There is a housing developer who has bought a lot of the property to build houses. A historical society has been using young people to scan the island for any civil war artifacts. They are talking about keeping a part of the island as a historical site. Not long ago, there was litigation over Buffington Island and the historical society lost. Buffington was the site of a John Hunt Morgan battle. If this keeps up, there will be very few of the civil war battlegrounds or prison sites remaining. -----Original Message----- From: R. E. Lee <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:15 AM Subject: [SCYORK-L] Re: Johnson's Island Prison, Ohio >I noticed a brief description of this prison in a recent listing. For those >wishing more information, there are three books on the subject: > "Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio" 1917. >By Shepherd, Henry E, M.A., LLD > "Ohio's Military Prisons in the Civil War," 1964. By Shriver, Phillip R. & >Breen, Donald J. > "Yankee Rebel, The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson." By >Patterson, Edmund DeWitt, 1866 >I found them very informative. >Bob >