![]() Six wide bronze plates along the north and south sides of the base listed the names and regiments of the dead. On its north face, the granite shaft contained the following inscription: "ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES TO MARK THE BURIAL PLACE OF 1616 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WHO DIED HERE WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR AND WHOSE GRAVES CANNOT NOW BE IDENTIFIED". ![]() It was made of white granite, and measured 35–40 feet (11–12 m) tall and 20 feet (6.1 m) wide. The monument was located within a circular walking path north of Pagoda Drive, just within Garfield Park's south road entrance on East Southern Avenue. By the end of the war, more than 1,700 prisoners had died at Camp Morton. Due to poor conditions-which included overcrowding, lack of sanitation, malnutrition, disease, and lack of medical care-the mortality rate was high. It quickly became one of the largest prison camps in operation at its height in 1864, it housed nearly 5,000 prisoners. ![]() government assumed control of the camp and established a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Shortly after the start of the Civil War, the original Indiana State Fairgrounds site in present-day Herron–Morton Place Historic District was converted into a Union mustering ground and training camp known as Camp Morton. It was dismantled and removed by the city of Indianapolis in June 2020 after a yearslong debate, part of a national wave of removal of Confederate memorials during the Black Lives Matter movement. At 35 feet (11 m) tall and located in the city's oldest public park, it had been the most prominent of the very few Confederate memorials in the Union state of Indiana. It commemorated the Confederate prisoners of war that died at Camp Morton. The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (or Garfield Park Confederate Prisoner of War Monument) was a large granite monument that sat at the south entrance of Garfield Park in Indianapolis for nearly a century, before being removed in 2020. ![]()
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