. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . era* -. CONFEDERATE PRISONERS AT BELLE PLAIN, CAPTURED AT SPOTSYLVANIA, MAY 12, 1804 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 Belle 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 h
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . era* -. CONFEDERATE PRISONERS AT BELLE PLAIN, CAPTURED AT SPOTSYLVANIA, MAY 12, 1804 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 Belle 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 DURIXG 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 e
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