Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Congressman Ely” in chapter 1.7, page 178 of The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals.:

...nd the prisons in Alabama and Georgia. Finally, November 21, 1864, he was made commissary-general of prisoners east of the Mississippi. Evidence shown by his official papers is contradictory. Congressman Ely , who had been a prisoner in Liggon's factory, calls him the kind-hearted general, but Colonel Chandler, in the supplement to his famous report, in words that sting and burn, holds him largely respons...
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