. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ■•;- ■ 0 • > A. ^J^ m ^ ^^ 1 J^T* ^.■ ^Ikki-V^^S Si^^T^/!^ 51 .-k ^ ^^^■^ \^^^k r. 4 ^ r^ P^^^^ g REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. CLOSE TO THE DEAD-LINE AT AXDERSONVILLE The officers in charge of this prison lived in constant dread of an uprising among tlie prisoners. At onetime less than twenty-three hundred effectives, ahnost all of them raw militia and generally inefficient,were guarding thirty-two thousand prisoners. The order to shoot without hesitation any prisoner
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ■•;- ■ 0 • > A. ^J^ m ^ ^^ 1 J^T* ^.■ ^Ikki-V^^S Si^^T^/!^ 51 .-k ^ ^^^■^ \^^^k r. 4 ^ r^ P^^^^ g REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. CLOSE TO THE DEAD-LINE AT AXDERSONVILLE The officers in charge of this prison lived in constant dread of an uprising among tlie prisoners. At onetime less than twenty-three hundred effectives, ahnost all of them raw militia and generally inefficient,were guarding thirty-two thousand prisoners. The order to shoot without hesitation any prisoner crossingthe dead-line, wliicli was maintained in all stockade prisons North and South, was a matter of vitalnecessity here when the prisoners so far outnumbered the guards. This condition of affairs is wliat gaverise to the famous order of General J. H. Winder for the battery of artillery on duty at A^derson^•ille toopen on the stockade should notice be received that any approaching Federal forces from Shermansarmy were witliin seven
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