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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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Prisoners of war (search)
onfederate prisons besides those already mentioned were Camp Sumter at Anderson, Georgia; Camp Lawton, at Millen, Georgia, established late in 1864, to relieve Andersonville; Camp Asylum, at Columbia, South Carolina; Macon, Georgia; Florence, South Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina. Large numbers of prisoners were also confs. In the North, the prisons were overcrowded, though none, perhaps, except Gratiot Street and Myrtle Street prisons in St. Louis, was so badly overcrowded as Andersonville, where hardly thirty-five square feet of ground to the individual was available when the stockade held the largest number. Prison work is generally unpleasawas the nominal rank of the commandant higher than that of colonel, and yet many prisons held more than five thousand men; several, more than ten thousand, and Andersonville had at one time more than thirty thousand. Some men who might have been good officers had their responsibilities been less, failed ignominiously in the face o
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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Northern and Southern prisons (search)
ere early in 1864, but were transferred to Andersonville soon after that prison was opened. In thery along the completion of the stockade at Andersonville, and on March 6, 1864, the medical inspecten given to construct the prison in Andersonville, August 17, 1864. The taking of these rribing himself as a former star boarder at Andersonville, he writes to the editors of this History:e photograph of Andersonville Prison. Andersonville exactly as it looked from the stockade, AuEarly in 1864, he was ordered to report at Andersonville, where he was soon placed in command of th, who was a member of the medical staff at Andersonville during a considerable portion of its existf that prison. The prison was larger than Andersonville; the stream of water was stronger, and bete, the food supply was better here than at Andersonville, or at least more fresh meat was served, bre some ghastly drawings of the horrors of Andersonville, under the charge of an old soldier whose [6 more...]
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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Exchange of prisoners (search)
this determination General Grant held fast against pressure to which a weaker man would have yielded. Conditions in Andersonville and other Southern prisons were, by this time, well known. The Confederate authorities, finding it more Where the prisoners longed to be exchanged This view of Andersonville, though not taken at the time when the prison was most crowded, gives some idea of the conditions. Practically no room was left for streets, though there was an opening for the wagons ers and army, allowed five non-commissioned officers to go through the lines bearing a petition from the prisoners at Andersonville, setting forth the conditions there and asking for exchange; but to no purpose. Nor was the protest of the commissio, for nearly every Confederate prisoner released went back to the ranks, while a large proportion of the prisoners at Andersonville belonged to regiments whose time was expired and in many cases had been mustered out of service. Therefore, had thei
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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The life of the captured (search)
ome of the prisoners toward their companions are revolting. In Andersonville and Salisbury, organized bands preyed upon the weak or upon thol and execution of a number of prisoners by their companions in Andersonville is well known. In those prisons where the prisoners cooked t money, and bought the belongings of the spendthrifts. Even in Andersonville, prisoners kept restaurants and wood-yards, and hundreds peddlesiness men in the prisons, as well as the improvident. Even in Andersonville, there were prisoners who kept restaurants and wood-yards. Hunhe Confederacy attempted to establish shoe and harness shops at Andersonville, Millen, and perhaps other places, to utilize the skill of the The passion for gambling was even stronger in prison. Even at Andersonville captives staked their food, their clothing, their blankets, the even some of the poorly clothed prisoners on Belle Isle and in Andersonville and Florence gambled away the clothing and blankets sent by the
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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Soldiers who escaped (search)
ns the guards appear to have regarded it as a game, at which each side was trying to thwart the other. A prisoner at Andersonville tells of starting a tunnel from the little hut which he occupied. The attempt was betrayed, possibly by a spy, and te and canister and did considerable execution. About fifty of the prisoners were killed and wounded. Escapes from Andersonville were not frequent. The triple stockade required such a long tunnel that many grew tired before it was completed, and extent by negroes, Goss succeeded in getting seventy-five miles away but was finally captured. Another story from Andersonville says that a tunnel once came to the surface in the middle of a camp-fire which the guards around the stockade had buitead of the tents, and conditions were materially bettered. Correspondingly, Northern prisoners under the hot sun at Andersonville and on an unaccustomed corn-meal diet were contracting dysentery and other diseases more rapidly than would have been
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. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Treatment of prisoners (search)
site, the organization, and the history of Andersonville have already been described, and the story The charge often made that the site of Andersonville was essentially unhealthful seems to be meaching Federals were within seven miles of Andersonville. During a large part of 1864, prisonersptured negroes was easier than that Andersonville. The officers in charge of this prison er for the battery of artillery on duty at Andersonville to open on the stockade should notice be rAndersonville Close to the dead–line at Andersonville of the whites, since they were distributexecuted. The most prominent figures at Andersonville, and hence in the prison history of the Cos promoted early in the war to the rank Andersonville 1864 huts built upon the dead–line itself him largely responsible for conditions at Andersonville, while other charges against his character of new prisons to relieve the crowding at Andersonville, and to enable the officers in charge to g[9 more...]<