{"id":33,"date":"2009-06-22T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2009-06-23T07:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:38:04","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, we published David Bush&#8217;s account of a Civil War prison on Johnson&#8217;s Island in Ohio (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/9907\/abstracts\/civil.html\">Doing Time<\/a>&#8221; July\/August), followed by our online exclusive featuring stories, photographs, and diaries provided by descendants of prisoners (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/online\/features\/civil\/\">Tales From A Civil War Prison<\/a>&#8220;). Our collaboration has continued ever since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Dave Bush\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.archaeology.org\/online\/features\/johnsons\/thumbnails\/dave.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ARCHAEOLOGY joined Bush and his crew in 2002 as they headed into the field to excavate barracks that once housed Confederate POWs. We returned to Johnson&#8217;s Island in 2006, 2007, and 2008 to follow investigations of the prison hospital, where work continues in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to our Interactive Dig, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/<\/a> for interviews, online features, and a video tour.<\/p>\n<p>David Bush joined Heidelberg College&#8217;s Center for Historic and Military Archaeology in 1998 to focus exclusively on the Johnson&#8217;s Island Prisoner of War Depot. He is also chairman of the Friends and Descendents of Johnson&#8217;s Island, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of this National Historic Landmark site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, we published David Bush&#8217;s account of a Civil War prison on Johnson&#8217;s Island in Ohio (&#8220;Doing Time&#8221; July\/August), followed by our online exclusive featuring stories, photographs, and diaries provided by descendants of prisoners (&#8220;Tales From A Civil War Prison&#8220;). Our collaboration has continued ever since. ARCHAEOLOGY joined Bush and his crew in 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}