Had a 3 x great-granduncle,William K. Hulse, die at Camp Morton 7 / 2/ 1863. He was a 54 year-old substitute in Co E 60th TN. His payment was a deed for 66 acres of land in east Tennessee. He was captured May 17, 1863 at Big Black so that's how long he survived. His son Thomas, was in Co.E 26th TN. He died of disease in Kentucky, Dec.8, 1861. Another Son John, also in the 60th TN died on December 17, 1862. His only son to survive the war, Abraham, had migrated to Illinois by 1850. He was a Captain in Co E 122nd Illinois Infantry. He returned to Tennessee after the war for his mother and younger siblings. William is mistakenly listed on the monument to the Confederate dead of Camp Morton as William R. Hulse.

Prisoners At Camp Morton