. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . LINING UP FOR RATIONS FROM THE CONQUERORS Capture was not an unmixed evil for the Confederate soldiers in the Wilderness campaign. The Armyof Northern Virginia had already taken up a hole in its belt on account of the failure of supplies; but theUnion troops were plentifully supplied with wagon-trains, and the men in gray who were captured neartheir base of supplies at Belle Plain were sure at least of a good meal. The Confederate prisoners hereshown were captured at
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . LINING UP FOR RATIONS FROM THE CONQUERORS Capture was not an unmixed evil for the Confederate soldiers in the Wilderness campaign. The Armyof Northern Virginia had already taken up a hole in its belt on account of the failure of supplies; but theUnion troops were plentifully supplied with wagon-trains, and the men in gray who were captured neartheir base of supplies at Belle Plain were sure at least of a good meal. The Confederate prisoners hereshown were captured at Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864, by the Second Corps under General Hancock. Theywere taken to Belle Plain, where they found not only a Union brigade left to guard them but a brigade 1154]. CONFEDERATE PRISONERS AT BELLE PLAIN, CAPTURED AT SPOTSYLVANIA, MAY commissary and his wagons ready to feed them. Some of the wagons can be seen in this photographon the left-hand page, unloading supplies for the Confederate prisoners. The camp at BeUe Plain was onlytemporary; the prisoners were taken thence by transports in the direction of Baltimore or Washington,sometimes even New York, and forwarded to the great Union prisons at Elmira, Johnsons Island, LakeErie, or Camp Douglas, Illinois. On the brow of the hill to the right stands a Union field-piece pointingdirectly at the mass of prisoners. Behind it are the tents of the guard stretching up over the hill. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS By Holland Thompson DURING the Civil War more than four hundred thou-sand men, drawn from every section of the country andfrom all ranks of society, diverse in character, previous train-ing, and experience, were confined under charge of perhapsone hundred thousand others, likewise drawn from eve
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