. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . over them. I^ittle or nodamage was done. There are hundreds of other threats to befound in the correspondence contained in the Oflicial Rec-ords. Prisoners were often designated as hostages for thesafety of particular j^ersons, but the extreme penalty was vis-ited on few. INlany of tlie threats on both sides were not in-tended to be executed. The most prominent figin-es at Andersonville, and hencein the prison history of the Confederacy, were General JohnII. Winder an
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . over them. I^ittle or nodamage was done. There are hundreds of other threats to befound in the correspondence contained in the Oflicial Rec-ords. Prisoners were often designated as hostages for thesafety of particular j^ersons, but the extreme penalty was vis-ited on few. INlany of tlie threats on both sides were not in-tended to be executed. The most prominent figin-es at Andersonville, and hencein the prison history of the Confederacy, were General JohnII. Winder and Captain Henry AVirz. The former officer,who was a son of General AVilliam II. Winder of the Warof 1812, had been graduated at West Point in 1820, andwith the exception of four years, had served continuously inthe army of the United States, being twice brevetted for gal-lantry during the ^Mexican War. As a resident of INIarylandhe had much to lose and little to gain in following the causeof the South, but, it is alleged, through the personal friendshipof President Davis, was j)romoted early in the war to the rank [1761 1. , igil, REVIEW OF flEViewS CO. ANDERSONVILLE 1864 HUTS BUILT UPON THE DEAD-LINE ITSELF This view of Andersoiivilk- Prison, taken from the northeast angle of the stockade in the summer of 1864,gives some idea of its crowding and discomfort. The jiliotographer had reached a sentry-box on the stockadenear tlie stream, from which the groimd sloped in both directions. On the right perches another sentry-box from which a rifle may flash at any instant—for the rail supported by posts in the foreground is thefamous dead-line, across which it was death to pass. So accustomed to all this had the prisoners become,in the filth and squalor and misery engendered by congestion, which finally left but thirty-five square feetof room (a space seven feet by fi\-e) to every man, that even the dead-line itself is as a support for someof the prisoners tents. Sinc
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