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1862-04

Dissolution Date

1865-09

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"Johnson's Island" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00003355, (accessed April 11, 2025).

Prisoner of war camp (U.S.A.) for Confederate officers on Sandusky Bay of Lake Erie in Ohio. Operated from April 1862 to September 1865. Established by Col. William Hoffman. Commandant(s): William Pierson.

Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes: An Encyclopedia of the State (Cincinnati: C. J. Krehbiel & Co., 1907), 572.
"Civil War Era," Johnson's Island Preservation Society, accessed April 27, 2020, http://johnsonsisland.org/history-pows/civil-war-era/.

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