. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ifying a change in thesefigures. Of course, this large number of Confederates cap-tured includes the armies of Lee, Johnston, Taylor, and KirbySmith surrendered during the months of April and INIay, 1865. This report is probably as nearly correct as can be made,owing to the partial destruction of records, though it differsvery widely from two other reports which are often quoted:one by partisan historians of the North, attempting to proveinhumanity on the part of the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ifying a change in thesefigures. Of course, this large number of Confederates cap-tured includes the armies of Lee, Johnston, Taylor, and KirbySmith surrendered during the months of April and INIay, 1865. This report is probably as nearly correct as can be made,owing to the partial destruction of records, though it differsvery widely from two other reports which are often quoted:one by partisan historians of the North, attempting to proveinhumanity on the part of the South, and the other by South-erners who have attempted by it to show that conditions inN(jrthern prisons were more fatal than those in the first contention is based upon a report of Secretary Stan-ton, from information furnished by the commissary-generalof prisoners. This says that 220,000 rebel ])risoners were heldin the North and about 126,950 Union prisoners in the South,and that 20,436 deaths of Confederate prisoners occurred,while 22,576 Union prisoners are reported to have died inSouthern prisons. [501. ^^
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