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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
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PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE ^^HITE FLAG BOAT THAT CARRIED PRISONERS TO FREEDOM Lying at the wharf is the Federal -flag-of-truce boat Xew York, which carried exchanged prisoners toAiiiens Landing, and later to City Point, in 1862, for the exchange to be completed. Whatever their en-thusiasm for the Stars and Stripes or the Stars and Bars, the white flag floating from the mast of the NewYuri: was greeted with eqnal joy 1)y Federals and Confederates. It signified liberty and home. TheFederal prisoners were usually taken from the point of exchange first to Fortress Monroe, and then to theparole camp at Annapolis. There they awaited payment for their services, which accrued during the timethey were imprisoned just as if they had been in acti\e service. This was a formality which the Confeder-ate soldiers overlooked, especially in the last year of the war. By 1865 Confederate currency had de))re-ciated to such an extent that a man paid $400 to have a horse curried, as related by a Confederate vete

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