. L'histoire photographique de la guerre civile : en dix volumes . LÀ OÙ CINQ MILLE PRISONNIERS CONFÉDÉRÉS SONT CAMPÉS sur les hauteurs au-dessus du creux, les saisies de l'Union peuvent être décrites contre la ligne de ciel. Le clusterof huts sur la page de droite fait partie du camp fédéral. De décembre 1862 à juin 1863, la plus sombre demi-année de la guerre du Nord, l'armée fédérale fut campée près de Falmouth, en Virginie, ville alittle sur la rivière Rappahannock, en face de Fredericksburg. Les quartiers d'hiver s'étirent vers les formiles vers Belle Plain et Aquia Creek, les bases de fournitures. Scou. Continue

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WHERE FIVE THOUSAND CONFEDERATE PRISONERS LAY ENCAMPED On the heights above the hollow the Union sentries can be descried against the sky-line. The clusterof huts on the right-hand page is part of the Federal camp. From December, 1862, to June, 1863, thegloomiest half-year of the war for the North, the Federal army was encamped near Falmouth, Virginia, alittle town on the Rappahannock River opposite Fredericksburg. The winter-quarters stretched back formiles toward Belle Plain and Aquia Creek, the bases of supplies. Continuous scouting and skirmishingwent on throughout the winter, and the Confederate prisoners captured during this time were confined atBelle Plain until arrangements could be made to send them to Northern prisons. Here also was the greatquartermasters supply depot, and these prisoners at least never lacked ample rations. They were but a [42]. A SCENE AFTER THE BATTLE OF SPOTSYLVANIA—May, 1864 few of the 462, 634 Confederate soldiers who were captured during the war. This figure is that of GeneralF. C. Ainsworth, of the United States Record and Pension Office. Of this number 247, 769 were paroledon the field, and 25, 796 died while in captivity. The Union soldiers captured during the war numbered 211, 411, according to the same authority, and of these 16, 668 were paroled on the field, and 30, 218 died while incaptivity. The difference between the number of Union and Confederate prisoners is due to the in-clusion in the Confederate number of the armies surrendered by Lee, Johnston, Taylor, and Kirby Smith dur-ing the months of April and May, I860. There are other estimates which differ very widely from this, which is probably as nearly correct as possible, owing to the partial destruction of the records. the war to risk the placing of prisoners of importance there.Provost-marshals arrested thousands in the North, who wereoften he

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