Joseph Van Buren Nelson was born in 1857, in Texas, the 2nd of 4 children born to Martin Van Buren Nelson and his wife Amanda Jane (Mandy) Sheppard.
Joseph did not get to grow up knowing his father Martin, who was a Civil War Casualty dying in 1864 as a Confederate Prison of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Camp Douglas became a place of misery for the Confederate prisoners. The camp received its first prisoners in February 1862, after the Battle of Fort Dickson and soon overcrowding, starvation, scurvy and a complete lack of medical attention made the place into a living hell.
The death toll for the camp, during the last three years of the war, has been estimated at as many as 6,129 men, which is slightly less than one-third of the entire prison population at the camp. Most perished from scurvy and smallpox, despite the best intentions of relief workers, who organized a fund to care for the men in 1862. In 1864 alone, 1,156 inmates died at the camp.
Josephs father Martin, is buried at the Oak Woods Cemetery near the Old Camp Douglas property in Illinois.
After the death of his father, his mother Amanda, remarried to James Monroe Wood. Together with James his mother gave birth to five more known children.
Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Harris on 26 Dec 1897. They had at least six known children.
Joseph did not get to grow up knowing his father Martin, who was a Civil War Casualty dying in 1864 as a Confederate Prison of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Camp Douglas became a place of misery for the Confederate prisoners. The camp received its first prisoners in February 1862, after the Battle of Fort Dickson and soon overcrowding, starvation, scurvy and a complete lack of medical attention made the place into a living hell.
The death toll for the camp, during the last three years of the war, has been estimated at as many as 6,129 men, which is slightly less than one-third of the entire prison population at the camp. Most perished from scurvy and smallpox, despite the best intentions of relief workers, who organized a fund to care for the men in 1862. In 1864 alone, 1,156 inmates died at the camp.
Josephs father Martin, is buried at the Oak Woods Cemetery near the Old Camp Douglas property in Illinois.
After the death of his father, his mother Amanda, remarried to James Monroe Wood. Together with James his mother gave birth to five more known children.
Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Harris on 26 Dec 1897. They had at least six known children.
Joseph Van Buren Nelson was born in 1857, in Texas, the 2nd of 4 children born to Martin Van Buren Nelson and his wife Amanda Jane (Mandy) Sheppard.
Joseph did not get to grow up knowing his father Martin, who was a Civil War Casualty dying in 1864 as a Confederate Prison of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Camp Douglas became a place of misery for the Confederate prisoners. The camp received its first prisoners in February 1862, after the Battle of Fort Dickson and soon overcrowding, starvation, scurvy and a complete lack of medical attention made the place into a living hell.
The death toll for the camp, during the last three years of the war, has been estimated at as many as 6,129 men, which is slightly less than one-third of the entire prison population at the camp. Most perished from scurvy and smallpox, despite the best intentions of relief workers, who organized a fund to care for the men in 1862. In 1864 alone, 1,156 inmates died at the camp.
Josephs father Martin, is buried at the Oak Woods Cemetery near the Old Camp Douglas property in Illinois.
After the death of his father, his mother Amanda, remarried to James Monroe Wood. Together with James his mother gave birth to five more known children.
Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Harris on 26 Dec 1897. They had at least six known children.
Joseph did not get to grow up knowing his father Martin, who was a Civil War Casualty dying in 1864 as a Confederate Prison of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Camp Douglas became a place of misery for the Confederate prisoners. The camp received its first prisoners in February 1862, after the Battle of Fort Dickson and soon overcrowding, starvation, scurvy and a complete lack of medical attention made the place into a living hell.
The death toll for the camp, during the last three years of the war, has been estimated at as many as 6,129 men, which is slightly less than one-third of the entire prison population at the camp. Most perished from scurvy and smallpox, despite the best intentions of relief workers, who organized a fund to care for the men in 1862. In 1864 alone, 1,156 inmates died at the camp.
Josephs father Martin, is buried at the Oak Woods Cemetery near the Old Camp Douglas property in Illinois.
After the death of his father, his mother Amanda, remarried to James Monroe Wood. Together with James his mother gave birth to five more known children.
Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Harris on 26 Dec 1897. They had at least six known children.
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