Address Restricted, Florence, South Carolina. County/parish: Florence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 28, 1980. NRIS 80003669.
1 contributing site. 3 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Florence Stockade, also known as The Stockade or the Confederate States Military Prison at Florence, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp located on the outskirts of Florence, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. It operated from September 1864 through February 1865; during this time, as many as 18,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned there, about 2,800 of whom died.
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