Culutural center receives rare Civil War canteen

  • CONTRIBUTED The Madison Morgan Cultural Center will soon display this rare Civil War-era wooden canteen.
    CONTRIBUTED The Madison Morgan Cultural Center will soon display this rare Civil War-era wooden canteen.

    The Madison Morgan Cultural Center has been given a rare Civil War treasure, a wooden canteen with a detailed carving of Madison Prison.

    During the Civil War the prison in Madison was located in what had been the Madison Steam Mill, the steam-driven cotton mill located about a halfmile west of the town square.

    Originally chartered about 1850, the Madison Steam Mill was bankrupt by 1855, but in 1862 …