Record #:

15405

Author(s):

Thomas, Theresa Meroney

Abstract:

Cotton factory turned Confederate prison; in 1935 all that remained of the 40 acre Civil War encampment was a single cottage in the town of Salisbury, Rowan County. Around 1845, Maxwell Chambers built a large brick building to process cotton and six smaller structures to house mill workers. With outbreak of war, the factory was transformed for mustering grounds and a prison to hold Federal prisoners.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 16, Sept 1935, p8, 22

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons