Name: Alfred H Bell
Enlistment Date: 2 Dec 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Place: Camp Trousdale, Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee
Muster Regiment: Company D, 41st Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Date Captured: 16 Feb 1862
Place Captured: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Imprisonment Place: Camp Morton, Indiana
Date of Death: 11 Mar 1862
Cause of Death: Disease
Side of War: Confederacy
Survived War?: No
Burial Place: Lafayette, Indiana
Cemetery: Greenbush Cemetery
On February 22, the first Confederate prisoners arrived by train at Indianapolis. Additional prisoners arrived at the camp over the next three days, bringing the number of prisoners to thirty-seven hundred men. Local residents helped provide the necessary food, clothing, and nursing to the incoming prisoners. The death rate among the unfortunate Confederate prisoners was high. In March 1862, 144 prisoners died at the camp. By April 1 the camp's inhabitants, including prisoners and guards, numbered five thousand. More prisoners arrived in subsequent months, including a group of a thousand prisoners from the battle at Shiloh.
Enlistment Date: 2 Dec 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Place: Camp Trousdale, Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee
Muster Regiment: Company D, 41st Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Date Captured: 16 Feb 1862
Place Captured: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Imprisonment Place: Camp Morton, Indiana
Date of Death: 11 Mar 1862
Cause of Death: Disease
Side of War: Confederacy
Survived War?: No
Burial Place: Lafayette, Indiana
Cemetery: Greenbush Cemetery
On February 22, the first Confederate prisoners arrived by train at Indianapolis. Additional prisoners arrived at the camp over the next three days, bringing the number of prisoners to thirty-seven hundred men. Local residents helped provide the necessary food, clothing, and nursing to the incoming prisoners. The death rate among the unfortunate Confederate prisoners was high. In March 1862, 144 prisoners died at the camp. By April 1 the camp's inhabitants, including prisoners and guards, numbered five thousand. More prisoners arrived in subsequent months, including a group of a thousand prisoners from the battle at Shiloh.
Name: Alfred H Bell
Enlistment Date: 2 Dec 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Place: Camp Trousdale, Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee
Muster Regiment: Company D, 41st Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Date Captured: 16 Feb 1862
Place Captured: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Imprisonment Place: Camp Morton, Indiana
Date of Death: 11 Mar 1862
Cause of Death: Disease
Side of War: Confederacy
Survived War?: No
Burial Place: Lafayette, Indiana
Cemetery: Greenbush Cemetery
On February 22, the first Confederate prisoners arrived by train at Indianapolis. Additional prisoners arrived at the camp over the next three days, bringing the number of prisoners to thirty-seven hundred men. Local residents helped provide the necessary food, clothing, and nursing to the incoming prisoners. The death rate among the unfortunate Confederate prisoners was high. In March 1862, 144 prisoners died at the camp. By April 1 the camp's inhabitants, including prisoners and guards, numbered five thousand. More prisoners arrived in subsequent months, including a group of a thousand prisoners from the battle at Shiloh.
Enlistment Date: 2 Dec 1861
Enlistment Rank: Private
Muster Place: Camp Trousdale, Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee
Muster Regiment: Company D, 41st Infantry
Muster Information: Enlisted
Date Captured: 16 Feb 1862
Place Captured: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Imprisonment Place: Camp Morton, Indiana
Date of Death: 11 Mar 1862
Cause of Death: Disease
Side of War: Confederacy
Survived War?: No
Burial Place: Lafayette, Indiana
Cemetery: Greenbush Cemetery
On February 22, the first Confederate prisoners arrived by train at Indianapolis. Additional prisoners arrived at the camp over the next three days, bringing the number of prisoners to thirty-seven hundred men. Local residents helped provide the necessary food, clothing, and nursing to the incoming prisoners. The death rate among the unfortunate Confederate prisoners was high. In March 1862, 144 prisoners died at the camp. By April 1 the camp's inhabitants, including prisoners and guards, numbered five thousand. More prisoners arrived in subsequent months, including a group of a thousand prisoners from the battle at Shiloh.
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