I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison

The island location made escape difficult, but not impossible. There were several attempts, and some were successful.

Bush has been directing an archaeological study of the A few years later he initiated a program to bring in students from the fifth through twelfth grades for a one-day session. About 30 schools participate each year.

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Working under a big white tent, the students get down on their hands and knees and carefully evacuate one unit a two-meter square at a time. When they find something of interest, they are told to avoid the temptation to pull it out and see what it is. Instead they carefully mark it and work around it to see if there are any other related pieces.

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They collect the soil in buckets and take it outside to sift it under supervision of Dr. Bush, his staff, and university students. Bush says items like pieces of glass, buttons, and nails are found on a daily basis. While I was there, a high school freshman found a glittering metal object, which turned out to be a gold hairpin, thought to be used to keep eyeglasses in place.

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Items of significance like this are numbered and cataloged. But the project is more than simply finding and identifying artifacts. Bush places great emphasis on integrating the archaeological findings with historical research, relying on such things as diaries and letters. During lunch breaks, he reads aloud from these primary source documents.

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Several of them found objects, two of which were labeled and cataloged as field specimens, including the gold piece found by the freshman. Students from Danville High School are briefed at the cemetery where more than Confederate officers are buried. More than men are buried there, 52 of them unknown.

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Life in a Civil War Prison. Bush works from their letters but provides insight based on archaeological investigations at Johnson's Island and some additional letters from other prisoners.

Babits, author of Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guildford Courthouse "A fascinating study that will appeal to a variety of audiences. The author literally uncovers the prisoner of war experience at Johnson's Island by sifting through the material culture record.

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Gray, author of The Business of Captivity: As a result, a distinctive prison culture developed, in part because of the educational background and access to money enjoyed by these prisoners. David Bush has spent more than two decades leading archaeological investigations at the prison site. In I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island he pairs the expertise gained there with a deep reading of extant letters between one officer and his wife in Alexandria, Virginia, providing unique insights into the trials and tribulations of captivity as actually experienced by the men imprisoned at Johnson's Island.