. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYfllGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. ^\•HERE THE FIRST FEDERAL PRISONERS WERE SENT- AT DRILL -YOUNG SOUTH CAROLINIANS Again the reader penetrates inside the Confederate lines in war-time, gazing here at the grim prison bar-riers of Castle rinckney, in Cliarleston Harbor, where some of the Union prisoners captured at the firstbattle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, had been sent. The thick stone walls frown down upon the boys of theCharleston Zouave Cadets, assigned to g
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYfllGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. ^\•HERE THE FIRST FEDERAL PRISONERS WERE SENT- AT DRILL -YOUNG SOUTH CAROLINIANS Again the reader penetrates inside the Confederate lines in war-time, gazing here at the grim prison bar-riers of Castle rinckney, in Cliarleston Harbor, where some of the Union prisoners captured at the firstbattle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, had been sent. The thick stone walls frown down upon the boys of theCharleston Zouave Cadets, assigned to guard these prisoners. Here they are drUling within the prisonunder the command of Lieutenants E. John White (in front at the right) and B. M. Walpole, just behindhim. The cadet kneelmg upon the extreme right is Sergeant (later Captain) Joseph F. Burke. The re-sponsibility was a heaxT one, but the Cadets were a well-driUed body of youngsters and proved quiteequal to their duties. This was early in the war before there were brigadier-generals scarcely of age, andyouth had been found not to preclude soldieily qualities. No
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