. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . who apparently spent their time in unmilitary but natural fraternizing with their guards,with whom their relations were nearly always pleasant. In spite of all the efforts of the officers, the guards could not be preventedfrom trading with the prisoners. The latter slaughtered the cattle for their own food; and from the hoofs and horns they made effectivecombs, and carved beautiful sets of checkers and chessmen. Conditions in this prison were not hard until 18G4, when
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . who apparently spent their time in unmilitary but natural fraternizing with their guards,with whom their relations were nearly always pleasant. In spite of all the efforts of the officers, the guards could not be preventedfrom trading with the prisoners. The latter slaughtered the cattle for their own food; and from the hoofs and horns they made effectivecombs, and carved beautiful sets of checkers and chessmen. Conditions in this prison were not hard until 18G4, when the concurrentincrease in numbers and exhaustion of supplies and wood in the neighborhood brought much suffering. It is reported that when theguards learned of the capture of Richmond, they went to their homes, leaving the prisoners almost without supervision to make theirway to New Orleans. With continued confinement, clothes wore out, as is evident in the photographs, which represent officers andenlisted men of the Nineteenth Iowa. With their bare feet they were evidently not in a condition to be presented in ENLISTED MEN OF THE NINETEENTH IOWA AFTER THEIR CAPTIVITY o The second estimate, used by Alexander H. Stephens, Sen-ator Benjamin H. Hill, and President Davis, cites an allegedreport of J. K. Barnes, Surgeon-General, U. S. A., which pur-ports to give the number of Confederate prisoners as 220,000,and the number of Union prisoners in the South as 270, authority quoted is an editorial in the National Intelli-gencer, of Washington, which seems not to have been contra-dicted, though General Barnes lived for many years report, however, is not to be found in the Federal archives;it is claimed that there is no evidence that it was ever made,and further that there is no way in which Surgeon-GeneralBarnes could have secured these figures. This, however, doesnot seem an impossibility, as the surgeons naturally made re-ports of the sick to him, and t
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