One thing that was fascinating when checking out the Terre Haute and Indy newspapers. They printed the names and units of the CSA soldiers who died at Camp Morton. So I guess you could obviously say it was no secret..Another item of note in the Terre Haute paper. "Isaac Ball,a prominent Terre Haute businessman and undertaker,interred 11 Confederate soldiers - who died while incarcerated at a makeshift prison established in a former Terre Haute pork packing plant - at Woodlawn Cemetery." Before the Civil War caskets were made to order.During the War Ball began to mass produce a ready-made variety. Obviously business was so good Ball then switched from cabinet making to undertaking and casket making. So I guess you could also say the CSA prisoners at Terre Haute did get a wooden casket courtesy of the US Government.

Unfortunately,I had hoped to find a newspaper article about whomever may have shot my grandfather but no luck..only the story passed down over the years.There was a disturbance outside the prison walls and when the prisoners looked they were fired upon.

MWT