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Salisbury Confederate Prison

The only Confederate Prison that was located in North Carolina was in the town of Salisbury. The prison was established on November 2, 1861.  The site consisted of sixteen acres within and contiguous to the town of Salisbury, and contained a principal 3 story cotton factory building, about ninety by fifty feet constructed of red brick; also six brick tenements with four rooms each, and a larger superintendent's house of framed materials, with smith shop and two or three inferior buildings.
This is a Plat of the Prison Property Owned by the Confederacy
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This plat was realigned to put the railroad at the top of the page
indicating the true-north as on most maps of the area.
  
This plat details the property purchased
by the Confederate Government on November 2, 1861.
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This is a "Birds Eye View" of the Salisbury Prison Compound.
This painting was made in 1864 and details the entire facility.
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This picture of the Salisbury Prison appeared in Harper's Weekly
for June 14, 1862 ( vol. 6, p. 375 )
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The picture below was discovered among some private papers in the early 1950's.
It was given by the New York Historical Society to the
North Carolina Department of Archives.
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