. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . y-eight hundredwho began the journey only about eighteen hundred reachedthe point of destination in a body. Some fell by the waysideand died. Others were sheltered by the kindness of peoplealong the road until thej weie able to move again. After thistime about five hundred prisoners were confined for a time, butwere hastily removed to Charlotte to esca])e Stonemans cav-alry. A\hen Salisbury was taken by that ofl^ccr, he confinedhis prisoners in the same stockade which
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . y-eight hundredwho began the journey only about eighteen hundred reachedthe point of destination in a body. Some fell by the waysideand died. Others were sheltered by the kindness of peoplealong the road until thej weie able to move again. After thistime about five hundred prisoners were confined for a time, butwere hastily removed to Charlotte to esca])e Stonemans cav-alry. A\hen Salisbury was taken by that ofl^ccr, he confinedhis prisoners in the same stockade which had lield the Federalcaj)tives, and when he left the town, he burned the stockade andeverything that was within it. After the collapse of the Con-federacy, JNIajor Gee was tried by a military commission sim-ilar to that which tried Wirz, on the charge of cruelty and con-sjjiracj^ but after a careful investigation the commission founda verdict of not guilty, declaring that he was censiuable onlybecause he remained in command after it had a])peared that thesimjjlest dictates of humanity could not be carried out. • * [92].
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