Item description: Drawing, dated 7 October 1863, by Joseph Mason Kern, a member of the 13th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A. The illustration depicts Johnson’s Island Prison in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, where Kern was imprisoned.
Item citation: From folder 2 of the Joseph Mason Kern Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Item caption: Prison on Johnson Island, Sandusky Bay, near Sandusky, Ohio. Oct 7th 1863.