File:History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment (1891) (14576178649).jpg

Identifier: historyoftwentyf00curti (find matches)
Title: History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Curtis, O. B. (Orson Blair), 1841?-1901
Subjects: Michigan Infantry. 24th regiment, 1862-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Iron Brigade
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Winn & Hammond
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
gging and tunneling to escape. The right-hand corner picture shows the breaking away of thestockade after a severe storm. The water flooded the swamp andcarried off the putrid matter that accumulated. The men waded intothe swamp and gathered up the logs for fuel, but they were takenaway from them. To the left is an indistinct representation of thediseases that afflicted the men. Again to the left is a dying prisonerand adjacent thereto his final thoughts of home and loved ones—hiswife reading his last letter, his babe in the cradle, etc. The top center CONFEDERATE PRISONS. 447 picture represents the grave yard. A load of dead is being placedupon the ground—their arms and legs hanging over the wagon sides.In a long trench two feet deep are closely placed side by side theemaciated forms of men of health but a few weeks before—now starvedto the grave. This same dead wagon, reeking with filth and vermin,without cleaning, was used to bring back into the stockade the foodfor the men !
Text Appearing After Image:
Next to the left is the shooting of a man too near the dead line,by the guard. Then appears the difficult efforts of the men to cooktheir rations, with such chips, sticks and roots, that they could barterfor and dig from the ground. In the left-hand corner may be seen arepresentation of hanging the six raiders. Below represents themethod of drawing rations. These were divided as equally as possibleaccording to the number in the squad, and placed on a blanket. Eachman had his number and one fellow turned his back to the rations.The sergeant then pointed to a pile and asked Wholl have this?The man with his back turned would say No. lo, and the man whobore that number would step forward, take the pile and devour it. The picture next below the ration scene represents the ProvidenceSpring. Just inside the dead line on the northwest side of theswamp, one night after a terrible thunderstorm when shafts of 448 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN lightning were frequent, a fine spring of pur

Note About Images