. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n was short, or else the number confined was alwayssmall; in many, conditions so closely resembled those in otherprisons that the description of one fits all of the class. We may classify the important prisons of the war underthe following heads: First, fortifications, of which Fort War-ren in Boston Harbor, Fort Lafayette at New York, andCastle Pinekney at Charleston are types; second, buildingspreviously constructed to restrain criminals, of which the oldpenitentiary at Alton, Illinois, was the most important; third,buildings con
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . n was short, or else the number confined was alwayssmall; in many, conditions so closely resembled those in otherprisons that the description of one fits all of the class. We may classify the important prisons of the war underthe following heads: First, fortifications, of which Fort War-ren in Boston Harbor, Fort Lafayette at New York, andCastle Pinekney at Charleston are types; second, buildingspreviously constructed to restrain criminals, of which the oldpenitentiary at Alton, Illinois, was the most important; third,buildings constructed for various purposes, turned into prisonswith more or less alteration, typical of which were the OldCapitol at Washington, the Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis,and the Libby in Richmond; fourth, enclosures surroundingbarracks, sometimes previously constructed for other uses,and sometimes built for prison purposes, which type includedseveral of the Northern prisons as Johnsons Island, CampMorton, and Rock Island; fifth, enclosures within which [54].
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