. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1861 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of tlie Old Capitol—where onre the Inited States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a eobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Con
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1861 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of tlie Old Capitol—where onre the Inited States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a eobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Confederate generals were confined in it, with scores of citizens suspected of disloyalty to the Union. Captain Wirz,the keeper of Andersonville Prison, was imprisoned here, and was executed on a gallows in the yard. These views show the ex-tensionsbuilt upon each side of the prison to contain mess-halls, and also to shelter prisoners of war. Iron bars have been placed m all thewindows, and sentries and soldiers stand upon the Here Mrs. Rose ONeal Grcenhow, the Confederate spy, was mcarcerated.
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