. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . DISTANT VIEW OF BELLE PLAIN CAMP OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS, MAY, 1864 rhis photograph was taken just after the Spotsylvania campaign, in the course of which Grant lost thirty-six thousand men in casual-ies but captured several thousand Confederates, part of whom appear crowding this prison camp. A tiny tortuous stream runshrough the cleft in the hills. Near the center of the picture a small bridge spanning it can be descried. Farther to the right is a;roup of Union soldiers. The scene is on the line of communication from Belle Plain
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . DISTANT VIEW OF BELLE PLAIN CAMP OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS, MAY, 1864 rhis photograph was taken just after the Spotsylvania campaign, in the course of which Grant lost thirty-six thousand men in casual-ies but captured several thousand Confederates, part of whom appear crowding this prison camp. A tiny tortuous stream runshrough the cleft in the hills. Near the center of the picture a small bridge spanning it can be descried. Farther to the right is a;roup of Union soldiers. The 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 process>y which he ultimately exhausted the Confederacy, but at the price of terrible losses to the Cnion. The prisons in the North became)opulated to suffocation, yet Grant held firm until it was certain that exchanges could have little influence on the final result. Mississippi. All corres
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