. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1861 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of tlie Old Capitol—where onre the Inited States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a eobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Con
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON—SHOWING THE ADDITIONS BUILT AFTER 1861 At the outset of the war, the only tenant of tlie Old Capitol—where onre the Inited States Congress had been housed—was an humbleGerman, who managed to subsist himself and his family as a eobbler. Six months later the place was full of military offenders, pris-oners of state, and captured Confederates, and the guards allowed no one to stop even for a minute on the other side of the prominent Confederate generals were confined in it, with scores of citizens suspected of disloyalty to the Union. Captain Wirz,the keeper of Andersonville Prison, was imprisoned here, and was executed on a gallows in the yard. These views show the ex-tensionsbuilt upon each side of the prison to contain mess-halls, and also to shelter prisoners of war. Iron bars have been placed m all thewindows, and sentries and soldiers stand upon the Here Mrs. Rose ONeal Grcenhow, the Confederate spy, was -^>4Si^^ SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE PRISON [h-o] o fe During the first months the methcal staff Avas inexperi-enced, and the camp was scourged by smallpox which was, infact, seldom absent for any length of time. Later, a new medi-cal officer brought order out of confusion, but the staff here wasnever so efKcient as at some other prisons. A very expensivehospital was erected, paid for from the prison fund, A\hichamounted to one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in18G5. Camp Douglas, in Cliicago. was a large instruction andrecruiting camp, of which the prison formed a comparativelysmall part. The camp w^as on low ground, which was flooded\\ith every rain, and during a considerable part of the winterwas a sea of mud. The barracks were poor and conditions gen-erally were unsanitary. President H. AV. Bellows of the Sani-tary Commission says, .Tune .iO, 1802, speaking of th
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