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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), Northern and Southern prisons (search)
number of Union prisoners confined in Libby Prison from the outbreak of the war to its close is estimated in round figures at 125,000. The books used in the office of Libby Prison and containing names, regiment, date of capture, etc., of every Federal officer and private that ever passed its doors, were deposited in Washington. The books were found to be carefully and accurately kept by the chief-clerk, E. W. Ross. were often damp and cold during the winter. A Hungarian refugee, General A. A. Schoepf, held command. No other Northern prison was so dreaded in the South as this. The only fortification in which the Confederate Government kept prisoners was Castle Pinckney at Charleston. Here for a time officers and men were confined, among them being Colonel Michael Corcoran of the Sixty-ninth New York, held as a hostage for the privateersman, Smith. Jails and penitentiaries were often used as prisons of war, but their use was generally temporary, as war does not prevent the
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), S (search)
. M., X., 281. Scammon, E. P.: II., 43, 75; X., 231. Scandinavians: recruits in Wisconsin regiments, VIII., 75. Scarcy Creek, W. Va., I, 348. Scenes from soldier life, IX., 123. Schackelford, J. M., X., 207. Scheibert, Major (German Engineer Corps), X., 130. Scheier, photographer, VIII., 171. Schenck, R. C., I., 308; X., 185, 206. Schimmelfennig, A., X., 293. Schleiden, Hanseatic Minister, VI., 25. Schmidt, C., IV., 337. Schoepf, A. A., VII., 58, 65. Schofield, G. W., III., 20, 201, 216. Schofield, J. M.: I., 128; III., 106, 108, 124, 132, 134, 248, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 258, 260, 264, 287, 318, 320, 322, 326, 344; V., 216, 254; X., 173, 174. School of the soldier, VIII., 179 seq. Schroeder, P., VI., 301. Schuitz, G. J., X., 2. Schurz, C.: II, 49, 117, 246; IV., 52; IX., 28; X., 22, 23, 214. Schwab, J. C., I., 90. Schweinler, C., I., 10. Sciota,, U. S. S.: I.,