. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GR.\CIES —AFTER GORUOXS FORLORX HOPE HAD CHARGED. PRISONERS TO PHIL SHERIDAN This group of the five thousand Confederate prisoners captured March 31st is eloquent of the tragedy in progress. Dire was theextremity of the Confederate cause in March, 1865. The words of the gallant leader in the last desperate and forlorn hope thatcharged Fort Stedman, General Gordon, give a pen-picture of the condition of the Southern fighting men: Starvation, literal starva-tion, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the bl
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . GR.\CIES —AFTER GORUOXS FORLORX HOPE HAD CHARGED. PRISONERS TO PHIL SHERIDAN This group of the five thousand Confederate prisoners captured March 31st is eloquent of the tragedy in progress. Dire was theextremity of the Confederate cause in March, 1865. The words of the gallant leader in the last desperate and forlorn hope thatcharged Fort Stedman, General Gordon, give a pen-picture of the condition of the Southern fighting men: Starvation, literal starva-tion, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lees men from insufficient and unsound foodthat a slight wound, which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war, would often cause blood-poison,gangrene and death, yet the spirits of these brave men seemed to rise as their condition gr^pW more desperate. But not only wasit physical ailments and consequent inability to fight their best which brought about the downfall, it was numbers, the overwhelmingnumbers that were opposed against them. In an interview with General Gordon, Le
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