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File Details: ALPAm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 41.1 Mb

Image ID: ALPA

Credit:

by Cooley (Samuel A.)

Date:

1865

Negative Size:

4 in. x 6.5 in. stereo

Locations & Lines:

Charleston Harbor; Charleston SC; Morris Island SC; South Carolina

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Stockade (Morris Island SC)

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. [?]507. Stockade on Morris Island, where Rebel Prisoners were confined. The Rebel authorities in Charleston placed the Union prisoners in confinement under fire of the Union batteries. When the Union authorities learned of this treatment of our prisoners, they notified the Rebels that unless our prisoners were removed to a place of safety, the Rebel prisoners in our hands would be confined in a stockade on Morris Island, where they would be under fire of the Rebel batteries in and about Charleston. As the Rebel authorities did not heed this warning, this stockade was built and the Rebel prisoners were confined here for a time, under fire of their own batteries. {Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Anthony No. 3507.

Etched onto negative: 3507.

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