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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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le to secure sufficient vegetable food for a few thousand men,and the death-rate fell considerably during Deceml)er. Hos-l)ital sheds were built, and though a small number of prisonerswas returned after General Sherman had 2)assed, conditionswere ne\er so horrible. Camp Lawton, at INIillen, Georgia, had been planned byGeneral Winder early in the summer of 1864, after he had seenthat the nmnber of prisoners sent to Andersonville would ex-ceed the capacity of that prison. The jjrison was lai-ger thanAndersonville; the stream of water was stronger, and betterhosjjital accommodation was jjlanned. It Mas a stockade resembling that at Andersonville, but wassquare, and contained about forty-two acres. The interior waslaid off by streets into thirty-two divisions, each of which inturn was subdivided into ten parts. The branches of the treesused in making the stockade were left on the ground, and thej)risoners were able to make huts of them. The (juestion ofshelter was never serious here. 1841
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I PATRIOT PUB. CO. FOREST HALL MILITARY PRISON, AT GEORGETOWN This was one of the inilitao prisons utilized by the provost-marshal. The activities of tiiese officialsfirst brought to the consciousness of the non-combatant citizen the fact that a state of war actually existed.As a result of the widespread suspicion and broadcast accusations that persons not in sympathy with theFederal Government were spies, the arrest of hundreds in and about Washington and in the other largercities of the Union States was ordered without warrants on a siini^le order from the State or War Depart-ment, but chiefly the former. President Lincoln had claimed the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.Commanders of such prisons as the above were instructed to refuse to allow themselves to be served withwrits; or either to decline to appear or to appear and courteously refuse to carry out the instruction of the court.

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