. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OVER THE RUINS AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, IN 1863, FROM FORT SANDERS (77). i-S^ai ;rt-, a« OH. 1™*$** , »T**-^J / II LIBBY PRISON AT RICHMOND CROWDED WITH UNION PRISONERS IN 1864 ANDERSONVILLE PRISON WITH ITS DEAD LINE AND BROOK IT is estimated that 188,000 Union soldiers and sailors endured the hardships ofthe sixteen Confederate prisons during the Civil War. In the prison yards are36,401 graves. 11,599 °f those released from prisons died before reaching theirhomes, and 12,000 after rea

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. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OVER THE RUINS AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, IN 1863, FROM FORT SANDERS (77). i-S^ai ;rt-, a« OH. 1™*$** , »T**-^J / II LIBBY PRISON AT RICHMOND CROWDED WITH UNION PRISONERS IN 1864 ANDERSONVILLE PRISON WITH ITS DEAD LINE AND BROOK IT is estimated that 188,000 Union soldiers and sailors endured the hardships ofthe sixteen Confederate prisons during the Civil War. In the prison yards are36,401 graves. 11,599 °f those released from prisons died before reaching theirhomes, and 12,000 after reaching home—making 60,000 lives sacrificed in Con-federate prisons. Several estimates place the deaths as high as So,000. Strange as itmay seem, the war photographers succeeded in taking their cameras behind prisonwalls. Three of these remarkable negatives are here revealed. The first one was takenat Libby prison, Richmo

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