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Title: The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
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Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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was so little sickness that there seems to have beenno need for a hospital. A newspaper written by hand was pub-lished by the prisoners, and concerts were given frequently. Inthe spring of 1864, many of the inmates planted gardens, butabout this time a great influx of prisoners from the Red Riveroperations overcrowded the prison and the horticultural hopeswere dissipated. This great increase in the number of prison-ers brought disease from overcrowding, and a hospital wasbuilt. By this time there Avere no trees within the prison ornear by, and many of the men burrowed in the earth. The ra-tion was reduced to corn-meal, and conditions became similar tothose in the Eastern stockades. The last prison to be consid-ered. Camp Groce, near Hempstead, was at first a camp in anopen field enclosed by guard lines. The number of Federalprisoners of war confined here was comparatively small, andlittle information regarding it is to be found in the OfficialRecords. (961 ir* PART I P R I S () N S /
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EXCHANGE OFPRISONERS AT COXS LANDINGWAITING POB Tfl BFLAG-OF-THUCE BOAT EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS By Holland Thompson The exchange of prisoners between belligerents is made in accord-ance with agreements, entered into for that purpose, called cartels. Themaking of such agreements is purely voluntary, and cannot be con-strained by subjecting prisoners to special hardships. . . . The bindingforce of cartels, like that of all other agreements between belligerents,rests upon the good faith of the contracting parties. If the terms of acartel are violated by one belligerent they cease to be obligatory uponthe other.—George B. Davis, in Outlines of International Law. THOUGH prisoners taken in Texas, Missouri, Virginia,and elsewhere had been paroled early in the war, theirexchange was not completed until much later. The first in-stance of formal exchange, apparently, is that in Missouri,when four officers of General G. J. Pillows command met fourof the command of Colonel W. H. L. Wallace, and e

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