<DIV><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal">Johnson's Island, in Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 1862 specifically to house captured Confederate officers. In part because of the educational background and access to money enjoyed by those individuals, a distinctive prison culture developed.<BR>          David Bush has spent more than two decades leading archaeological investigations at the site, and has uncovered a wealth of material culture that demonstrates the magnitude of POW craft jewelry manufacture, especially rings created by officer-prisoners for loved ones back home.<BR>          In <I>I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island </i>Bush pairs these discoveries with a deep reading of extant letters, including a rich trove of correspondence between Captain Wesley Makely, captured shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, and his wife, Kate, at home in Alexandria, Virginia.<BR>          Bush captures in compelling detail the physical challenges and emotional toll of prison life and offers fascinating insights into the daily lives of prisoners, guards, and the homefront.<BR>          No other collection of Civil War letters offers such a rich context; no other archaeological investigation of Civil War prisons provides such a human story.</p></div>