. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . DISTANT VIEW OF BELLE PLAIN CAMP OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS, MAY, 1801 This photograph was taken just after the Spotsylvania campaign, in the course of whicli Grant lost thirty-six thousand men in casual-tics but captured several thousand Confederates, part of whom appear erowdinj; this prison camp. A tiny tortuous stream runsthrough tlie cleft in the hills. Near the center of the picture a small bridge spanning it can be descried. Farther to the right is agroup of Unio
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . DISTANT VIEW OF BELLE PLAIN CAMP OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS, MAY, 1801 This photograph was taken just after the Spotsylvania campaign, in the course of whicli Grant lost thirty-six thousand men in casual-tics but captured several thousand Confederates, part of whom appear erowdinj; this prison camp. A tiny tortuous stream runsthrough tlie cleft in the hills. Near the center of the picture a small bridge spanning it can be descried. Farther to the right is agroup of Union soldiers. Tlie scene is on the line of communication from Belle Plain, the base of supplies, to the army at the had been stopped by order of General Grant on the 17th of the previous month, when he started the hammering processby which he ultiniately exhausted the Confederacy, but at the price of terrible losses to the Union. The prisons in the North becamepopulated to sufTocation, jet Grant held firm until it was certain that exchanges could have little influence on the final result. ^&
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