. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . The island itself was about three miles longand half a mile wide. The construction of the prison was or-dered in July, 1863, and on August 12th, the quartermaster-general instructed the builder that the barracks for prisonerson Rock Island should be put up in the roughest and cheapestmanner, mere shanties, with no fine work about them. Ahigh fence enclosed eighty-four barracks arranged in six rows offourteen each. The barracks were eighty-two by twenty-two bytwelve feet, with a cook-house at the end of each. The ventila-tion was po
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . The island itself was about three miles longand half a mile wide. The construction of the prison was or-dered in July, 1863, and on August 12th, the quartermaster-general instructed the builder that the barracks for prisonerson Rock Island should be put up in the roughest and cheapestmanner, mere shanties, with no fine work about them. Ahigh fence enclosed eighty-four barracks arranged in six rows offourteen each. The barracks were eighty-two by twenty-two bytwelve feet, with a cook-house at the end of each. The ventila-tion was poor, and only two stoves were placed in each of thebarracks. The water supply was partly secured from an ar-tesian well and partly from the river by means of a steam-pump, which frequently gave out for days at a time. Thoughthe ])rison was not quite completed, over five thousand prison-ers were sent during the month of December, 1863, and fromthat time on the prison usually contained from five thousandto eight thousand prisoners until the end of the war. [66].
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