Memoir 2, Page 104, Wartrace, Alabama

"I was barred up here with about fifty other prisoners in an old frame on the north east side of the depot."

While this depot was torn down in the 1960s, you can still see where it stood in modern Memorial Park beside the train tracks in Wartrace. A fountain from the 1930s at the corner of the park now provides the most visible landmark of where this depot used to stand. Images of this depot reveal how small the space was, particularly when occupied by 50 men as Woods describes. For a picture of the depot and the fountain, click here. While the Tullahoma Campaign had not begun during Woods’ imprisonment in Wartrace, the proximity of the little town to the Tullahoma military campaign, which began a month later, would have made this train station quite busy even during his time there.