Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Two Photographs Said to Show Union Guards Posing With Confederate POWs Wearing Barrels as Punishment in the Union Prison Camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, During the Civil War



Two photographs said to show Union guards posing with Confederate POWs undergoing barrel shirt punishment in the Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, during the Civil War. The two signs attached to them in the first photograph read “vagabond” and “thief.” By Morrow.

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