Camp Ford

Camp Ford
Near Tyler, Texas
The Price Raid by Samuel J. Reader shows Union prisoners on the way to Camp Ford in October 1864
Location
Camp Ford
Location of Camp Ford
Coordinates32°23′44.13″N 95°16′7.28″W / 32.3955917°N 95.2686889°W / 32.3955917; -95.2686889
Site history
Built1862 (1862)
Built by Confederate States Army
In use1862 (1862)–1865 (1865)
EventsAmerican Civil War
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Col. R. R. Brown

Camp Ford was a POW camp near Tyler, Texas, during the American Civil War. It was the largest Confederate-run prison west of the Mississippi.