“Battle of Champions Hill”, Published by Kurz and Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, Illinois (1887). Called by some the Battle of Bakers Creek or the Battle of Champion Hill, it may have been the most important fight of the American Civil War. It's remembered as the battle the North needed to win to achieve ultimate victory. It's remembered as the battle the South needed to win if the Confederacy was to survive. It's remembered as a savage struggle and as General Hovey said in his Official Report, "It was literally a hill of death.” Wiley Hamilton Cunningham fought in this battle and was taken prisoner by the Union Army here.

Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, Union Prisoner of War camp. Posted on Ancestry by PMSchooSchierberg.

Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, Union Prisoner of War memorial. Posted on Ancestry by lprice72001.

Wiley Hamilton Cunningham Union POW record. U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865.