. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ARTILLERY ON GUARD OVER THE PRISONERS AT ELMIRA This is part of the military guard in the face of which ten prisoners escaped by tunneling from Elmira incentive to get free from the conditions inside the stockade was so compelling that a battery of artillerywas deemed necessary to forestall any sudden rush of the prisoners, who numbered at times as many as10,000. In a report to Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes, dated November 1, 1864, Surgeon E. F. Sanger,assig
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ARTILLERY ON GUARD OVER THE PRISONERS AT ELMIRA This is part of the military guard in the face of which ten prisoners escaped by tunneling from Elmira incentive to get free from the conditions inside the stockade was so compelling that a battery of artillerywas deemed necessary to forestall any sudden rush of the prisoners, who numbered at times as many as10,000. In a report to Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes, dated November 1, 1864, Surgeon E. F. Sanger,assigned to duty at the prison, says: On the 13th of August I comnienced making written reports callingattention to the pond, vaults, and their deadly poison, the existence of scurvy to an alarming extent (re-porting 2,000 scorbutic cases at one time), etc. . How does the matter stand to-day? The pond remainsgreen with putrescence, filling the air with its messengers of disease and death; the vaults give out theirsickly odors, and the hospitals are crowded with victims for the grave. In the face of conditions like these,me
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