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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF neviEWS CO. THE BRIGHT SIDE OF PRISON LIFE—18C1 These are some of the Union prisoners taken at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, at CastlePinckney, in Charleston Harbor, where they were placed in charge of the Charleston Zouave Cadets underCaptain C. E. Chichester. They received the same rations as their guardians, and were good-enoughsoldiers to make themselves quite comfortable. Later in the war, when rations grew short in all the Southernarmies, prisoners suffered along with the rest. During 1863 the number of prisoners on both sides hadincreased so largely that their care began to be a serious matter—both on account of the expense of feedingthem, and because of the number of soldiers withdrawn from service at the front in order to guard them.The cost of caring for prisoners by the tens of thousands was felt in the North as well as in the South, butin the latter section it finally came to be physically and economically impossible to keep th

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