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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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of water. By nightthe men worked away, digging the tunnel and throwing thedirt into the well. By day they removed the dirt from the wellamid the jeers of their companions, who did not believe thatthey would ever reach water. The tunnel was finally openedup, and about twenty passed through and scattered into smallparties to increase the probability of escape. Living upon fruitand the flesh of a calf they killed, and aided to some extentby negroes, Goss succeeded in getting seventy-five miles awaybut was finally captured. Another story from Andersonville says that a tunnel oncecame to the surface in the middle of a camp-fire which theguards around the stockade had built. The prisoners sprangup through the fire, nevertheless, much to the alarm of theguards, who took to their heels, apparently thinking that thedoor of the infernal regions had opened. For a time, escapesfrom Camp Douglas, at Chicago, Avere frequent. Prisonerswere sent to that point before a fence had been constructed (148)
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ARTILLERY ON GUARD OVER THE PRISONERS AT ELMIRA This is part of the military guard in the face of which ten prisoners escaped by tunneling from Elmira Prison.The incentive to get free from the conditions inside the stockade was so compelling that a battery of artillerywas deemed necessary to forestall any sudden rush of the prisoners, who numbered at times as many as10,000. In a report to Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes, dated November 1, 1864, Surgeon E. F. Sanger,assigned to duty at the prison, says: On the 13th of August I commenced making written reports callingattention to the pond, vaults, and their deadly poison, the existence of scurvy to an alarming extent (re-porting 2,000 scorbutic cases at one time), etc. . . . How does the matter stand to-day? The pond remainsgreen with putrescence, filling the air with its messengers of disease and death; the vaults give out theirsickly odors, and the hospitals are crowded with victims for the grave. In the face of conditions like these,men

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