This in-depth volume presents the findings and interpretations from the 1997–1998 archaeological investigations at the historic Camp Ford site, conducted under the direction of Dr. Alston V. Thoms of Texas A&M University.

Rich with detailed charts, maps, and field photographs, this comprehensive study brings scientific analysis to one of East Texas’s most significant Civil War sites. Readers gain a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how archaeology uncovers the physical traces of daily life, confinement, and survival within the largest Confederate prisoner-of-war camp west of the Mississippi River.

An essential resource for historians, Civil War enthusiasts, preservationists, and serious researchers, this technical work offers authoritative documentation of Camp Ford’s material history and the groundbreaking fieldwork that helped illuminate it.