. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1801 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of the Old Capitol—where once the United States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a cobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Conf
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1801 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of the Old Capitol—where once the United States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a cobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Confederate generals were confined in it, with scores of citizens suspected of disloyalty to the Union. Captain keeper of Andersonville Prison, was imprisoned here, and was executed on a gallows in the yard. These views show the extensionsbuilt upon each side of the prison to contain mess-halls, and also to shelter prisoners of war. Iron bars have been placed in all thewindows, and sentries and soldiers stand upon the sidewalk. Here Mrs. Rose ONeal Grcenhow, the Confederate spy, was incarcerated.
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