Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Major Putnam” in chapter 1.5, page 128 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.:
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and many a rural champion owes his title to the hours he spent playing checkers in a military prison.
Major Putnam tells us that some of his companions in Libby Prison became so intensely interested in chess that they fainted from excitement, induced of course by their weakened condition, and that the senior offi...
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