Richmond Prisons

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Excerpt from Richmond Prisons: 1861-1862, Compiled From the Original Records Kept by the Confederate Government, Journals Kept by Union Prisoners of War, Together With the Name, Rank, Company, Regiment and State of the Four Thousand Who Were Confined There Next morning they arose at an early hour, and were served to a breakfast of dry bread, boiled beef and coffee. Soon after, Brigadier General John H. Winder called and apologized for the uncomfortable quarters by saying that the arrival of the prisoners was unexpected, and he was, therefore, unprepared for them, but that a separate apart ment for the officers in another building was nearly ready, and that they would be removed to it in the afternoon. The building in which the prisoners were quartered was guarded on all sides by a strong force, night and day. They had been confined there but a short time when one of the guards in the rear fired at a prisoner in a third story window, who happened to be looking out at that moment. The ball lodged in a joist in the ceiling, which prevented it from penetrating the ¿oor and possibly injuring some innocent man above, Colonel Michael Corcoran of the 69th New York Regiment and Hon. Alfred Ely, member of Congress from Rochester, New York, both prisoners of war, called General Winder's attention to this circumstance, and pointed out the ball marks. He assured them that such an act should not occur again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.