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Selected Works of Vicki Betts
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"'To Spill Their Hearts Blood in the Good Cause of Releasing the Yankees': The Plot to Free the Prisoners at Camp Ford."
Chronicles of Smith County, Texas (2015)
  • Vicki Betts, University of Texas at Tyler
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Abstract
Details the plot by Unionist George W. Whitmore and his family to free the federal prisoners at Camp Ford, near Tyler, Texas, and the Confederate undercover effort to discover and thwart that plot.
Keywords
  • Camp Ford,
  • prisoners of war,
  • Civil War,
  • George W. Whitmore,
  • R. T. P. Allen,
  • Tyler,
  • Texas
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Vicki Betts. ""'To Spill Their Hearts Blood in the Good Cause of Releasing the Yankees': The Plot to Free the Prisoners at Camp Ford."" Chronicles of Smith County, Texas Vol. 46 (2015) p. 12 - 18 ISSN: 0578-0462
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vicki-betts/17/