. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to inarch. Of twenty-eight hundredwho began the journey only about eighteen hundred reachedthe point of destination in a body. Some fell by the waysideand died. Others were sheltered by the kindness of peoplealong the road until they were able to move again. After thistime about five hundred prisoners were confined for a time, butwere hastily removed to Charlotte to escape Stonemans cav-alry. When Salisbury was taken by that officer, he confinedhis prisoners in the same stockade which had held the Federalcaptives, and when he left
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to inarch. Of twenty-eight hundredwho began the journey only about eighteen hundred reachedthe point of destination in a body. Some fell by the waysideand died. Others were sheltered by the kindness of peoplealong the road until they were able to move again. After thistime about five hundred prisoners were confined for a time, butwere hastily removed to Charlotte to escape Stonemans cav-alry. When Salisbury was taken by that officer, he confinedhis prisoners in the same stockade which had held the Federalcaptives, and when he left the town, he burned the stockade andeverything that was within it. After the collapse of the Con-federacy, Major Gee was tried by a military commission sim-ilar to that which tried Wirz, on the charge of cruelty and con-spiracy, but after a careful investigation the commission founda verdict of not guilty, declaring that he was censurable onlybecause he remained in command after it had appeared that thesimplest dictates of humanity could not be carried ^Mi ■•*■: - v s^ r - ■ ■* LIBBY PRISON AFTER THE WAR—RUINS IN THE FOREGROUND This photograph was taken in April, 1865, after the city had passed into the hands of the Fed-erals. The near-by buildings had been destroyed, and the foreground is strewn with debrisand bricks. The prison was purchased as a speculation some time after the war and trans-ported to Chicago. The enterprise, like every other monument of bitterness, failed and hassince been destroyed. While it was still standing, among its exhibits were some ghastly draw-ings of the horrors of Andersonville, under the charge of an old soldier whose duty it was todilate upon them. One day his account of the unspeakable misery there so inflamed the mindof a young man belonging to the generation after the war that he broke into cursing andreviling of the Confederacy. The Union veteran listened quietly for a moment, and thensaid: Thats all over now, and both sid
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