Showing posts with label confederate pows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confederate pows. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Friday, January 16, 2015

Carte De Visite View Said to Show Confederate POWs in Line For Dinner in the Ohio Penitentiary During the Civil War in Columbus, Ohio


Carte de visite view said to show Confederate POWs lined up to go to dinner in Ohio Penitentiary during the Civil War in Columbus, Ohio. This information might be embellished as Confederate POWs were not known to wear prison uniforms during the Civil War. By Wm. Oldroyd.

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Confederate POWs Taking an Oath of Loyalty to the United States at the Rock Island Prison Barracks, a Union Prison Camp on Arsenal Island, Illinois (1865)


Confederate POWs taking an oath of loyalty to the United States at the Rock Island Prison Barracks, a Union prison camp on Arsenal Island (originally Rock Island), Illinois, c. 1865. From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

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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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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Confederate POWs at a Temporary Prison Camp in the "Punch Bowl" at Belle Plain, Virginia (1864)



Two animated time-lapse stereoscopic photographs of Confederate POWs at a temporary Union prison camp in the "Punch Bowl" at Belle Plain, Virginia, 1864. The photos were taken on a single plate with a 4-lens camera in which the paired stereoscopic images were taken seconds apart. Inspired by the NPSFRSP blog post here.

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The four stereoscopic photographs combined together into a looped film.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Three Views of Union Soldiers Posing in Front of a Lean-to Shelter During the Civil War Near Lewinsville, Virginia (1861)

"Picket guard on the alert, near Lewinsville, Va." Source.

"Picket guard, Lewinsville, Va." Civil War-era colorization of the same stereoview with a different caption. Source.

Higher resolution version of the scene. Source.

"Picket guard on the alert, near Lewinsville, Va." Union soldiers in front of a lean-to shelter posing as if they were fighting in a skirmish, 1861. By Edward Bierstadt. Animated stereoviews. Later used as a reference for his brother Albert Bierstadt's painting seen here:

"Guerrilla Warfare," by Albert Bierstadt, 1862. Source.

I have come across at least two other versions of Union soldiers posing in front of the shelter by Edward Bierstadt. The following stereoview is from Lincoln in Photographs: An Album of Every Known Pose.

"Picket Guard at rest near Lewinsville, Va." Another scene of Union soldiers posing in front of the shelter.

The third is said to show Union soldiers guarding Confederate POWs in front of the shelter.

"Picket Guard with Prisoners Near Lewisville." The resolution of the photograph is too low to tell whether or not the "Lewisville" caption is misspelled. From Cowan's Auctions. Source.