In 1862 a large number of Confederate prisoners were confined in Camp Randall, at Madison, and many of them died in hospital.
But the results of the saner researches of Randall Maclver, announced first at the South Africa meeting of the British Association (1905) and later communicated to the Royal Geographical Society, have robbed these structures of much of their glamour; from being the centres of Phoenician and Hebrew industry they have sunk to be mere magnified kraals, not more than three or four hundred years old.
On leaving Oxford he acted as tutor for a short time in the house of the Lucys of Charlecote, near Stratford-on-Avon, where he married Agnes Randall.
In the first innings, Randall had infuriated Lillee by doffing his cap to him after a vicious bouncer.
David Randall and Abigail Dixon have been involved with the camps for over ten years, first as campers and then as teen-age helpers.
