. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d upon the attitude of the prison commandant,who made requisitions for clothing at his discretion. In the Southern stockades, there was little shelter exceptwhat the prisoners improvised, and wood was often insufficientin quantity. Shelter was always furnished in the North, andfuel in somewhat variable quantities. AV here the barracks werenew and tight there was generally sufficient warmth; in othercases, the number of stoves allowed did hardly more than tem-per the air, and as a result every window and door was kepttightly closed.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d upon the attitude of the prison commandant,who made requisitions for clothing at his discretion. In the Southern stockades, there was little shelter exceptwhat the prisoners improvised, and wood was often insufficientin quantity. Shelter was always furnished in the North, andfuel in somewhat variable quantities. AV here the barracks werenew and tight there was generally sufficient warmth; in othercases, the number of stoves allowed did hardly more than tem-per the air, and as a result every window and door was kepttightly closed. The attitude of the guards was variable, North and speaking, they Mere not cruel, though they weresometimes callous. It is the unanimous testimony that soldierswho had seen actual service were more considerate than raw re-cruits or conscripted or drafted militia. Undoubtedly, the ne-groes who formed a part of the guard at several prisons weredisposed to be strict and to magnify their authority, sometimesto the humiliation of their charges. I. THE BULL-RING AT CITY POIXT, A DREADED PROVOST PRISON The exigencies of war differed so widely from those of peace that at times the prisoners held by their own side had quite as much tocomplain of as if they had been captured in battle. The Bull-Ring at City Point was composed of three large barracks of onestory which opened into separate enclosures surrounded by high wooden fences. All this was enclosed in a single railing, betweenwhich and the high fence a patrol was constantly in motion. The inner sentry stood guard upon a raised platform built out from thefence, which gave him a view of all the prisoners in the three pens. This is where the provost-marshals prisoners were confined. Thesanitary conditions were indescribably bad. William Howell Reed, in Hospital Life. published in 1800, quotes an officer recentlyliberated from Prison as saying that he would rather be confined in Libby for six months than in the H
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