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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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fhumanity. Others are conventions which have been acceptedby the common consent of nations. In previous wars they hadbeen generally violated, and the same thing happened duringthe Civil War. Sometimes the violation was unintentional;at other times, because some apparent advantage was gained.Some officers in charge of prisoners looked upon them as fel-ons and acted as the warden of a penitentiary might. Othersseemed to feel that all is fair in war. If the contest had been between two independent nations,the captives upon each side woidd naturally have been ex-changed, but it was the theory of the United States that thecontest was an insurrection, not a war, and therefore the au-thorities were at first inclined to treat their prisoners as civildelinquents, guilty of treason. It was feared that an agree-ment to exchange prisoners would be regarded as a recognitionof the Confederacy as a nation, and it was determined to avoidsuch action. After the battles of Bull Hun and Balls Bluff, (32)
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CONFEDERATES CAPTURED AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN*, IN CULPEPER COURT HOUSE, AUGUST, 18G2 The Confederate prisoners on the balcony seem to be taking their situation very placidly. They have evidently been doing some familylaundry, and have hung the results out to dry. The sentries lounging beneath the colonnade below, and the two languid individualsleaning up against the porch and tree, add to the peacefulness of the scene. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1861, theabove with other Confederates were captured and temporarily confined in this county town of Culpeper. Like several other Virginiatowns, it does not boast a name of its own, but is universally known as Culpeper Court House. A settlement had grown up inthe neighborhood of the courthouse, and the scene was enlivened during the sessions of court by visitors from miles around. the number of prisoners in Confederate hands was so largeand their political influence so great, that commanders wereauthorized to make special exchanges,

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