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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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that is, releasing under an oathnot to take up arms until exchangedâdeveloped. The first prisoners were taken very soon after the organ-ization of the Confederate Government, before a battle hadbeen fought. On February 18. 1861, General David E.Twiggs, commanding the Department of Texas, surrenderedwithout resistance the military posts and public property ofthe department to a committee appointed by the State ofTexas, stipulating, however, that the troops, 2684 in all, wereto retire unmolested. Because of this act, General Twiggswas dismissed on March 1st from the Federal service. A fewtransports were sent for the troops, but before all of them hadsucceeded in reaching the coast, the attempt to relieve FortSumter put a new face upon the situation. President Davis had been disposed to allow the fulfil-ment of the original agreement, but soon it was announcedthat at the time the promise was given a state of war did notexist, and that a subsequent state of war made it proper for (26)
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IX CASEMATE No. 2UNION PRISONERS, CASTLE PINCKNEY Among the Union prisoners taken at the first battle of Bull Run and transferred to Castle Pinekney, besidesthe Seventy-ninth New York (Scotch) Regiment, the Sixty-ninth New York (Irish) Regiment, and theEighth Michigan Infantry, were some of the Eleventh Fire Zouaves, recruited from the New York FireDepartment. These prisoners were an extremely intelligent lot of men, and adapted themselves to the situa-tion. They willingly performed police duty. Their casemates were kept in excellent condition. They sharedthe same fare as their guards, and taught them the army method of softening hard-tack so that theycould eat it with less violent exercise of their jaws and danger to their molars. The Charleston ZouaveCadets was a company of very young men, residents of Charleston, full of patriotic ardor and well disciplined.The State of South Carolina seceded from the Union at three oclock in the afternoon of December 20,1860,and at four oclock the

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