Bird's Eye View of Confederate Prison Pen, At Salisbury, N.C. Taken in 1864.

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• PUBLISHER: Copyright 1886 by C. A. Kraus.

• MEDIUM: Three-stone lithograph,

  DATE: 1886.

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 22 3/4 x 33 15/16" (57.8 x 86.2 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Printed by J. H. Bufford's Sons Lith., Boston, New York & Chicago. <br><br> This lithograph depicts the Confederate Prision camp in Salisbury, North Carolina toward the end of the Civil War. A 12-item key identifying 1. Cotton Factory. 2. Old Blacksmith Shop, Used as a Guard House and afterward as Dead House. 3. Old Well. 4,5,6,7,8, and 9, Brick houses used for Officers Prisons. 10. Confederate Headquarters. 11. Soup House. 12. Hole from which Prisoners tunnelled to excape. <BR><BR> Confederate prison at Salisbury took in its first Yankee prisoners on December 9, 1861. Many of the incarcerated spent their time writing, whittling or playing baseball. These constituted some of the first baseball games played in the South. In April, 1865, General George Stoneman’s Union troops set fire to the prison, which had been abandoned and converted into a supply depot.

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• CONDITION: Good condition, save for tear in the title margin and marginal repairs.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Historical , Civil War