1864-1865 ca.
Photograph
Title: Waiting for Exchanged Prisoners
Taylor & Huntington, publishers. "This is the flag-of-truce steamer "New York," waiting at Aiken's Landing, on the James River, for the Rebel flag-of-truce boat from Richmond, with a load of Union prisoners for Exchange. And what an exchange it was. The Union soldiers just from Rebel prison pens; starved and often too weak to walk, many of the poor victims had to be brought off on stretchers, some even were dead before they reached this place of exchange. What did the Rebels get in exchange; man for man, they received fat, healthy, well-fed, and well-clothed Rebel soldiers. The…
GLC05137.011