Person:William David (1)

27th Arkansas Infantry, Company F. DAVID, W J Corporal—Enlisted at Locust Grove, Arkansas, May 21, 1862; age 27; captured at Little Rock, Arkansas, September 10, 1863; sent to military prison at Camp Morton, Indiana; died of fever in prison, February 20, 1864; interred in Grave 790, Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.

In Indianapolis during the Civil War, 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors died from the harsh treatment and conditions prevalent in military prisons in those days. These men were being held in Camp Morton, which held approximately 5,000 prisoners at any one time. A total of 15,000 men passed through the camp between 1862 and 1865. Orignally, the Confederates who died while being held at Camp Morton were buried at Greenlawn Cemetery near downtown Indianapolis. Years later when bodies wereremoved from this cemetery to make way for industrialization, the first monument to the Rebels was removed to a city park. Several years later, the bodies of the Confederates were moved to Crown Hill Cemetery, without their monument.