Thursday, January 22, 2015

Photograph Taken During Prisoner Exchange Negotiations Between Union and Confederate Officers Under Flags of Truce at Camp Fisk in Vicksburg, Mississippi (1865)


Photograph taken during prisoner exchange negotiations between Union and Confederate officers under flags of truce at Camp Fisk in Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 1865. Many of the wounded Union POWs released as a result of these negotiations died after the boilers of the SS Sultana, the steamship they were traveling back home on, exploded near Memphis, Tennessee, on April 27, 1865.

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