Hidden Columbia: Camp Sorghum Traditional Cache
Hidden Columbia: Camp Sorghum
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Between October and December 1864 many Union POW's were sent from Charleston to Columbia.
Officials in Columbia were not aware that they were being sent until they arrived. Confederate forces had to quickly put together a camp to hold all the POW's.
They chose a spot close to here because it was bordered on two sides by the Saluda & Congaree Rivers. Soldiers felt that the rivers would serve as deterrents to escape.
They were wrong as about 400 Union soldiers used the rivers as a means for escape in the short three months.
Conditions at the camp were so bad that many of the Union soldiers died of starvation or disease. Fourteen soldiers were known to be buried at the camp but some Historians say the number could easily be in the 100's.
Some Union soldiers, who were part of General Sherman's troops which arrived in Columbia in February 1865, cited the camp as reason for the burning of Columbia.
The camp got it's name, "Camp Sorghum" because of it's main source of food for the prisoners...sorghum molasses.
These series of caches were inspired by ABC Columbia News that has a segment called "Hidden Columbia". (Search for it on Facebook)
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