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establishing camp libraries, besides donations of money and provisions for Union soldiers.
He died but recently; and it is sad to record that his last days were passed in reduced circumstances.
September 1, several hundred Confederate officers, sent to be confined under fire in retaliation for a similar hardship suffered by our officers in Charleston, arrived off Morris Island on the steamer Crescent. An enclosed camp was made for them just north of Wagner, in full view of the enemy and exposed to his fire.
The enclosure was 228 by 304 feet, and formed of palisading of pine posts, ten feet above ground, supporting a platform from which sentinels could watch the prisoners.
The ‘dead line,’ marked by a rope stretched on posts, was twenty feet inside the palisading.
Good A tents, each to hold four men, were pitched and arranged, forming eight streets.
The ground was clean, dry, quartz sand.
Several days before, the Fifty-fourth was assigned to guard this prison camp.
On September 7, Colonel Hallowell, with Companies D, E, G, and K marched to the landing, where the steamer Cossack soon arrived with the Confederates.
The escort was composed entirely of colored soldiers.
First came three companies of the Twenty-first United States Colored Troops in column, then the prisoners, flanked on either side by two companies of the Fifty-fourth, the rear closed by two companies of the Twentyfirst in column.
In this order the Confederates were taken to the camp.
This body of five hundred and sixty officers thus placed in our charge was a singular-looking set of soldiers.
There were among them tall, lank mountaineers, some typical Southerners of the books,—dark, long-haired, and fierce
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