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Letters and memoirs sometimes refer to McDowells College. What is “McDowells” or “McDowells College”?

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Letters and memoirs sometimes refer to McDowells College. What is “McDowells” or “McDowells College”?

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This is Gratiot Street Prison. The building had been McDowell’s College, a medical college owned and operated by Joseph Nash McDowell. It was confiscated by the Federal authorities in the spring of 1861. In December 1861 the building was converted into a prison and later renamed.