. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . :Cifc£i^^ .few. of the whites, since they were distributed among the citizensor employed upon Government works. Under these circum-stances they receive enough to eat and are worked no harderthan accustomed to. Stories of placing prisoners under the fire of their ownbatteries occasionally occur. On the evidence of two desertersthat certain captured negroes had been ordered to work onfortifications under fire. General Butler put a number of Con-federate prisoners to work upon the Dutch Gap canal. Onthe denial of General Lee that it w
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . :Cifc£i^^ .few. of the whites, since they were distributed among the citizensor employed upon Government works. Under these circum-stances they receive enough to eat and are worked no harderthan accustomed to. Stories of placing prisoners under the fire of their ownbatteries occasionally occur. On the evidence of two desertersthat certain captured negroes had been ordered to work onfortifications under fire. General Butler put a number of Con-federate prisoners to work upon the Dutch Gap canal. Onthe denial of General Lee that it was intended to place prison-ers under fire, and the statement of his position in regard tonegro soldiers, General Grant ordered the squad the bombardment of Charleston, Federal prisonersMere confined there under fire, though the city was still inhab-ited. In retaliation, six hundred Confederate officers were sentfrom Fort Delaware to Morris Island, and there confined in astockade in front of the Federal lines, where the projectilesfrom the
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