#confederate pows

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Animated sequence of four photographs taken with a four-lens stereoscopic camera of a group of Confederate POWs sitting in a shelter in the "Punch Bowl" at Belle Plain, Virginia, 1864. Attributed to Mathew Brady.

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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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Union soldiers guarding Confederate POWs shortly after their capture at the Battle of Five Forks, April 1865. Animated stereoview.

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Confederate POWs taking an oath of loyalty to the United States in the Union prison camp at Rock Island Prison Barracks, Illinois, c. 1865.

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Three views of Elmira Prison, the Union POW camp in Elmira, New York, c. 1864/1865. Confederate POWs can be seen lined up for roll call in the first and third photographs as Union guards patrol the wall encircling the prison. All three photographs were taken from approximately the same location at different intervals of time as tents can be seen being replaced with barracks and variations in the amount of foliage can be observed.

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African American Union soldiers of the 108th US Colored Infantry Regiment stationed at Rock Island Prison Barracks, Illinois, c.1865. The stockade wall behind them encloses the Confederate POWs.

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