{"id":467,"date":"2010-05-17T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/?p=467"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:33:26","slug":"2010-field-report-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/2010\/05\/2010-field-report-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Field Report 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigations at the Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island Civil War Prison Site by Dr. David Bush<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a><\/p>\n

This year, our investigations are centered on Block 8 within the Prison Compound.\u00c2\u00a0 Block 8 was one of the 11 housing blocks used solely for holding the Confederate officers incarcerated at Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to the 11 general housing blocks, Block 6 was the prison hospital, and Block 1 was\u00c2\u00a0 converted in the fall of 1864 for housing those prisoners who agreed to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Union and thus needed housed in a separate block to keep them safe from the other prisoners.\u00c2\u00a0 In the past I have conducted extensive excavations at Block 4 and Block 6.\u00c2\u00a0 These investigations have given a good picture of the differences between use for housing or for the infirm.<\/p>\n

The investigations at Block 8 will provide critical data on how different general housing blocks may actually produce evidence of varied activities between the blocks.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to be able to discuss how each housing block may in fact represent different approaches to the survival of incarceration.\u00c2\u00a0 This can only be discussed through intensive investigations of multiple blocks.<\/p>\n

\"Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/a><\/p>\n

As noted in the figure above, our investigations are starting with the southern end of the block.\u00c2\u00a0 There were one-story extensions on the two-story buildings which appear like sheds.\u00c2\u00a0 Block 6, the hospital block, is the third from the right with the two extensions off the back.\u00c2\u00a0 The block to its left is Block 8.\u00c2\u00a0 You can notice the small single story extensions added to this structure.\u00c2\u00a0 As you can see, block 10 also has the same additions, as do Blocks 9 and 11 on the opposite row of blocks.\u00c2\u00a0 It has been reported these single story extensions were used as the building\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s messes.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore, the investigation of these areas should produce mostly remains related to the preparation of food.\u00c2\u00a0 This should be significantly different from the comparative area of Block 4, which did not have one of these single story structures.<\/p>\n

This year also marks the 12th year we have conducted the Experiential Learning Programming in Historic Archaeology.\u00c2\u00a0 We had 30 middle school and high school classes participate in this program.\u00c2\u00a0 This program will continue until May 25th, and then the archaeological field school will begin on June 7th.\u00c2\u00a0 The intent for the spring and summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s excavation is to continue the exploration of Block 8 and also explore one of the early latrines behind the block.<\/p>\n

Our first installment for the interactive dig will be a contribution by the Lorain Early College High School classes which worked with us this spring.\u00c2\u00a0 There were four classes that participated in the Experiential Learning program.\u00c2\u00a0 We look forward to your comments and questions as we proceed with our investigations this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigations at the Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island Civil War Prison Site by Dr. David Bush This year, our investigations are centered on Block 8 within the Prison Compound.\u00c2\u00a0 Block 8 was one of the 11 housing blocks used solely for holding the Confederate officers incarcerated at Johnson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to the 11 general housing blocks, Block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldnotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactive.archaeology.org\/johnsonsisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}