Herron–Morton Place is an affluent historic district in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The boundaries of the neighborhood are East 16th Street on the south, East 22nd Street on the north, North
Talbott Street in the southwestern part of the district
Camp Morton
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Camp Morton was a military training ground and a Union prisoner-of-war camp in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the American Civil War. It was named for Indiana governor Oliver Morton. Prior to the war,
Herron–Morton Place Historic District
…At the start of the American Civil War, the area was used as an induction center for the Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Later in the war, it served as Camp Morton, a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers that was named after Indiana's governor at the time, Oliver P. Morton. After the Civil War, it went…
Prisoners at Camp Morton, c. 1863
Graves of the Confederate prisoners at Crown Hill Cemetery