Castle Morgan

Sign At Castle Morgan

"It is proper here to give a general consideration to the position that Castle Morgan should occupy in the history of the Rebellion before entering into its details. As a depot for Federal prisoners, Castle Morgan is almost unknown to history and in tradition."

View From Castle Morgan (Alabama)

"This statement is surprising, when one becomes aware that it was one of the large prisons of the South (it contained two and one half times as many prisoners as Libby); that it was by far the most crowded prison of the Confederacy; that while its inmates endured nearly all the rigors of other prisons, in some of its particulars their hardships and sufferings far exceeded those known in any prison." [Source]