. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . cture shows the breaking away of thestockade after a severe storm. The water flooded the swamp andcarried off the putrid matter that accumulated. The men waded intothe swamp and gathered up the logs for fuel, but they were takenaway from them. To the left is an indistinct representation of thediseases that afflicted the men. Again to the left is a dying prisonerand adjacent thereto his final thoughts of home and loved ones—hiswife reading his last letter, his babe in the cradle, etc
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . cture shows the breaking away of thestockade after a severe storm. The water flooded the swamp andcarried off the putrid matter that accumulated. The men waded intothe swamp and gathered up the logs for fuel, but they were takenaway from them. To the left is an indistinct representation of thediseases that afflicted the men. Again to the left is a dying prisonerand adjacent thereto his final thoughts of home and loved ones—hiswife reading his last letter, his babe in the cradle, etc. The top center CONFEDERATE PRISONS. 447 picture represents the grave yard. A load of dead is being placedupon the ground—their arms and legs hanging over the wagon a long trench two feet deep are closely placed side by side theemaciated forms of men of health but a few weeks before—now starvedto the grave. This same dead wagon, reeking with filth and vermin,without cleaning, was used to bring back into the stockade the foodfor the men ! - .7 „, Jvc- , i^SPSEF^- -Z- .....» m^JB^rn. i >
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