. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rt, or else the number confined was alwayssmall; in many, conditions so closely resembled those in otherprisons that the descri]:)tion of one fits all of the class. We may classify the important prisons of the war iniderthe following heads: First, fortifications, of which Fort AVar-ren in Boston Harbor, Fort Lafayette at New York, andCastle Pinckney at Charleston are types; second, buildingspreviously constructed to restrain criminals, of which the old2)enitentiary at
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rt, or else the number confined was alwayssmall; in many, conditions so closely resembled those in otherprisons that the descri]:)tion of one fits all of the class. We may classify the important prisons of the war iniderthe following heads: First, fortifications, of which Fort AVar-ren in Boston Harbor, Fort Lafayette at New York, andCastle Pinckney at Charleston are types; second, buildingspreviously constructed to restrain criminals, of which the old2)enitentiary 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. I^ouis,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 Xorthern prisons as Johnsons Island, CampINIorton, and Rock Island; fifth, enclosures within which [54 j. WW
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