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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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)laced in it, and the men sleptupon the floor. From it. Colonel Rose and his companionsescaped, in 1864, by tunneling from the basement floor underthe street, but escapes were-generally few. This prison wasunder command of )Major Thomas P. Turner, though a subor-dinate, Richard Turner, had more direct control. For a time an attempt to preserve reasonable sanitary jjre-cautions was made. The floors were washed; a rude bathroomwas installed, and the walls were frecjuently whitewashed. Asthe months went on, conditions gradually grew worse, as itwas generally crowded, even after some of the officers weresent to )Macon, Danville, and Salisbury. The prison at Cahaba, Alabama, was an old cotton-shed,partially unroofed, with bunks for five hundred men. A fewhundred prisoners were confined here early in 1804, but weretransferred to Andersonville soon after that prison was opened.In the summer of 1864 prisoners were again sent here, and in
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COPYRIGHT, .11. HcUEA OF RLViewi CO. BELLE ISLETHE CONFEDERATE COMAL\.NDANT IN THE FOREGROUNDTHE CAPITOL OF THE CONFEDERACYIN THE DISTANCE Prominent in the foreground is Major Thomas P. Turner, commandant of Belle Isle and Libby Pnson.He is clad in Confederate gray, with a soft felt hat, and his orderly stands behind him. Before him aresome tents of the Union prisoners-a trifle nearer the Capitol at Richmond seen across the nver than theycare to be at the present juncture. The fact that this noble edifice was erected under the direction ofThomas Jefferson, on the plan of the IVIaison-Carree at Nimes, could do little to alle^•iate their mental dis-tress The crest of the hill on which Major Turner is standing is one hundred and twelve feet above tide-water overlooking the encampment. The guard and guard-tents appear in the distance at the edge of theriver. This is the fourth successive war-time photograph taken inside the Confederate lines shown in thischapter. The original negative w

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