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Book 1997
Rebels on Lake Erie
- Publisher
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Published
- 1997
- History
- Johnson Island Prison
- Johnson's Island, Lake Erie
- Military - United States
- Prisoners and prisons
- United States
Orders were issued October 3, 1861, with the Civil War a little more than six months old and going badly for the North, to locate a Federal prison, or "depot for prisoners of war," on the islands in Lake Erie.
