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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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ooked and within this limited area jirisoners were compelled to perform all the offices of life. In April the numl)er rose to ten thousand, in )\Iay to fif-teen and in .Tune to more than twenty-two thousand men, andthe amount of space available was thus reduced to about thirty-three square feet to the man. During June an addition ofabout forty per cent, to tlie area of the stockade was completed,and though nearly seven thousand additional prisoners werereceived during the month, the amount of space available foreach Avas larger than it had been the month before. DuringAugust the mean strength of the prisoners was 32,899, andthe average amount of sj^ace available less than thirty-sixsquare feet to the man. I?ut even this represents the condi-tion of the stockade in a better light even than it really was;for a considerable breadth of land along the stream . . . be-tween the hills was lo\\ and boggy. General John H. AVinderwas placed in charge of this prison and also of the officers (701
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REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. ELMIKA PRISON BEFORE THE ADDITIONAL BARRACKS WERE BlILT This is an early picturt- uf Elmira Prison before additional barracks had been constructed. Tlic ohl barracks are visible in tlic middk>distance, while almost the entire space in front is covered with tents under which a considerable part of the Confederate prisoners wereaccommodated until the winter. The Elmira Prison was opened in May, 1864. Before the end of August the prisoners there numberedalmost ten thousand. Conditions here were always bad, partly on account of the insufficient shelter, and partly because of a feudbetween the commandant and surgeon. The latter, E. F. Sanger, wrote under date of November 1, 1864, to Brigadier-GeneralJ. K. Barnes, Surgeon-General of the United States Army: Since August there have been 2,011 patients admitted to the hospital,775 deaths out of a mean strength of 8,347 prisoners of war, or twenty-four per cent, admitted ami nine per cent. died. Haveaveraged daily 451 i

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