. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . was pos-sible to secure sufficient vegetable food for a few thousand men,and the death-rate fell considerably during December. Hos-pital sheds were built, and though a small number of prisonerswas returned after General Sherman had passed, conditionswere never so horrible. Camp Lawton, at Millen, Georgia, had been planned byGeneral Winder early in the summer of 1864, after he had seenthat the number of prisoners sent to Andersonville would ex-ceed the capacity of that
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . was pos-sible to secure sufficient vegetable food for a few thousand men,and the death-rate fell considerably during December. Hos-pital sheds were built, and though a small number of prisonerswas returned after General Sherman had passed, conditionswere never so horrible. Camp Lawton, at Millen, Georgia, had been planned byGeneral Winder early in the summer of 1864, after he had seenthat the number of prisoners sent to Andersonville would ex-ceed the capacity of that prison. The prison was larger thanAndersonville; the stream of water was stronger, and betterhospital accommodation was planned. It was a stockade resembling that at Andersonville, but wassquare, and contained about forty-two acres. The interior waslaid off by streets into thirty-two divisions, each of which inturn was subdivided into ten parts. The branches of the treesused in making the stockade were left on the ground, and theprisoners were able to make huts of them. The question ofshelter was never serious here. [841. FOREST HALL MILITARY PRISON, AT GEORGETOWN This was one of the military prisons utilized by the provost-marshal. The activities of these officialsfirst brought to the consciousness of the non-combatant citizen the fact that a state of war actually a result of the widespread suspicion and broadcast accusations that persons not in sympathy with theFederal Government were spies, the arrest of hundreds in and about Washington and in the other largercities of the Union States was ordered without warrants on a simple order from the State or War Depart-ment, but chiefly the former. President Lincoln had claimed the right to suspend the writ of habeas of such prisons as the above were instructed to refuse to allow themselves to be served withwrits; or either to decline to appear or to appear and courteously refuse to carry out the instruc
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