Category: Cahaba Prison, Cahaba, Alabama

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[[Category: Cahaba Prison, Cahaba, Alabama]]

About Cahaba Prison aka Castle Morgan

Cahaba Prison was located in Cahaba, Alabama, approximately ten miles south of Selma at the junction of the Cahaba and Alabama Rivers. It was established in the summer of 1863. It was closed six to nine months later and the prisoners were sent to Andersonville. It was reestablished the last six months of the war. The prison was originally a warehouse. It became so crowded each man barely had enough room to lie down. Wooden bunks without straw or bedding slept 432 men. Water came from a natural spring which ran through the prison and emptied into the river. This spring was also used as the sinks.

Cahaba Prison

Cahaba Prison held about 5,000 men altogether and was probably the best run of all Southern prisons. It is hard to say how many prisoners died at Cahaba. Confederate records list 142, while Federal records show 147. The dead were buried at a nearby cemetery and after the war the graves were dug up and the bodies were reburied at Marietta, Georgia. SOURCE: National Park Service

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