. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ne of one of the few which were carried out. In 18(i4, while Sherman waspushing everything before him in Georgia, a number of Union prisoners were sent to Charleston and con-fined within the city limits, actually under fire of the Union batteries, although the city was still retaliation, six hundred Confederate officers were placed on the steamer Vrcxceni, August 20, 1864, andstarted for Charleston from Fort Delaware. When they arrived, the stockade built for their prison onMorris Island under fire of the Confederate b
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ne of one of the few which were carried out. In 18(i4, while Sherman waspushing everything before him in Georgia, a number of Union prisoners were sent to Charleston and con-fined within the city limits, actually under fire of the Union batteries, although the city was still retaliation, six hundred Confederate officers were placed on the steamer Vrcxceni, August 20, 1864, andstarted for Charleston from Fort Delaware. When they arrived, the stockade built for their prison onMorris Island under fire of the Confederate batteries was not ready, and the prisoners were not landedtill September 7th. The food furnished them was identical with that which rumor had it was furnishedthe prisoners in the city. The Confederates, however, were careful to fire high. The guard in the stock-ade was as much exposed as the prisoners. The Federal prisoners in the city were finally withdrawn;the stockade was then abandoned, and its inmates sent to Fort Pulaski, Savannah, on October L23, Meanwhile, the first reporter had, perhaps, repudiated the ru-mor the following day. For a time the issue of hoxes was sus-pended, though we are told hy General Butler that this arosefrom the fact that they were addressed by zealous persons inthe North to Our Brave Defenders in Richmond, or to Our Starving Soldiers in Richmond. Colonel Ould, theConfederate agent of exchange, says that persistent misrep-resentation of the action of the Confederate authorities causedthe withdrawal of the privilege. During 18(i3, the number of prisoners had increased solargely that their care began to be a serious matter upon bothsides, both because of the expense of feeding them, and on ac-count of the number of guards withdrawn from service. Fromthe south and west, only a few lines of rickety, single-trackrailway ran toward Richmond, by which supplies of every sortmight be brought. The expense of feeding and guarding pris-oners by the tens
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