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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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the course of the war. Mar-tial law reigned supreme inthose days so far as regardedmen with Southern senti-ments, but once in FortWarren tin- prisoners weretreated witli the utmost re-spect, well-fed, and placed incomfortable quarters. Beyondthe fact that they were underguard as prisoners of war,they had little to complain ofas to their treatment by theircaptors. Many of these menwere taken in the North whiletraveling from city to city.When they were recognizedas Southerners who had ut-tered secession sentiments,they were quietly taken fromthe trains, put in charge of aprovost-guard, and trans-ported to Fort Warren orsome similar Federal prison.
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WRITTEN* BY ACONFEDERATECAPTIVE, ANDDECORATEDIX COLOR gazing into vacancy. Nostalgia (homesickness) occasionallyappears on the surgeons reports as the cause of death of a pris-oner, but there can be no question that it was a contributingcause in many cases attributed to other diseases. Where the prisoners were educated men with resources inthemselves, they struggled bravely to keep up their courage,for if this were lost their chances of survival were lessened. TheConfederate officers at Johnsons Island had debating societies,classes in French, dancing, and music; they organized a govern-ment and debated and raised questions in their House of Rep-resentatives. The same sort of thing went on at Libby and atother places, and some of the discussions given in the books ofreminiscences are exceedingly interesting. At Camp Ford, inTexas, at Fort Lafayette, and at one of the Richmond prisons,newspapers written out by hand were published. A study of mortality statistics shows that there werefe

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