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CIVIL WAR PRISONERS & CASUALTIES AT ALTON CONFEDERATE PRISON

T

he Alton prison opened in 1833 as the first Illinois State Penitentiary and was closed in 1860, when the last prisoners were moved to a new facility at Joliet.

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