. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Chickamauga, pressed gallantly on up the ridge,heedless of the deadly fire belched into their very faces, and overran the works at the summit like a torrent,capturing thirty-five guns and prisoners wholesale. As this photograph was taken, some of the Confederateprisoners were standing at the railroad depot awaiting transportation to the prisons in the North. Theresuch bodies were usually guarded by partially disabled soldiers organized as the Veteran Reserve
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Chickamauga, pressed gallantly on up the ridge,heedless of the deadly fire belched into their very faces, and overran the works at the summit like a torrent,capturing thirty-five guns and prisoners wholesale. As this photograph was taken, some of the Confederateprisoners were standing at the railroad depot awaiting transportation to the prisons in the North. Theresuch bodies were usually guarded by partially disabled soldiers organized as the Veteran Reserve had more to eat than the Northern prisoners in the South, yet often less than the amount to whichthey were entitled by the army regulations. In the South, during the last years of the war, prisoners almoststarved, while their guards fared little better. With all the resources of the North, Confederate prisonersoften went hungry, because of the difficulty of organizing such a tremendous task and finding suitableofficers to take charge. The Northern soldiers in the field frequently suffered from hunger for days at a ranters nf Illinois, was taken for the accommodation of Confederateprisoners in the West, while in the East the forts along the sea-board, including Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, Forts La-fayette and Columbus at New York, Fort McHenry in Chesa-peake Bay, Fort Delaware in the Delaware River, and the OldCapitol at Washington, were converted into prisons. In Rich-mond, tobacco-factories which could be transformed with com-paratively little work into places for the detention of prisoners,were leased. Among these were Liggons, Crews, CastleThunder, Pemberton, and others. Later Libby, which hadbeen an old warehouse, became the chief officers prison. CastlePinckney in Charleston Harbor, and some empty buildings inTuscaloosa, Alabama, were also used. As the war went on, it was found that such accommoda-tions were entirely inadequate. The capacity of the forts alongth
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