. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ene of one of the few which were carried out. In 18(54, while Shermanwaspushing everything before him in Georgia, a number of Union prisoners were sent to Charleston and eon-fined within the city limits, actually under fire of the Union batteries, although the city was still retaliation, six hundred Confederate officers were placed on the steamer Crescent, August 90, 1804, andstarted for Charleston from Fort Delaware. When they arrived, the stockade built
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ene of one of the few which were carried out. In 18(54, while Shermanwaspushing everything before him in Georgia, a number of Union prisoners were sent to Charleston and eon-fined within the city limits, actually under fire of the Union batteries, although the city was still retaliation, six hundred Confederate officers were placed on the steamer Crescent, August 90, 1804, andstarted for Charleston from Fort Delaware. When they arrived, the stockade built for their prison onMorris Island under fire of the Confederate batteries was not ready, and the prisoners were not landedtill September 7th. The food furnished them was identical with that which rumor had it was furnishedthe prisoners in the city. The Confederates, however, were careful to fire high. The guard in the stock-ade was as much exposed as the prisoners. The Federal prisoners in the city were finally withdrawn;the stockade was then abandoned, and its inmates sent to Fort Pulaski, Savannah, on October -23, Meanwhile, the first reporter had, perhaps, repudiated the ru-mor the following daj\ For a time the issue of boxes was sus-pended, though we are told by General Butler that this arosefrom the fact that they were addressed by zealous persons inthe North to Our Brave Defenders in Richmond, or to Our Starving Soldiers in Richmond. Colonel Ould, theConfederate agent of exchange, says that persistent misrep-resentation of the action of the Confederate authorities causedthe withdrawal of the privilege. During 1863, the number of prisoners had increased solargely that their care began to be a serious matter upon bothsides, both because of the expense of feeding them, and on ac-count of the number of guards withdrawn from service. Fromthe south and west, only a few lines of rickety, single-trackrailway ran toward Richmond, by which supplies of every sortmight be brou
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