Stockade on Morris Island where Rebel prisoners were confined

[ca. 1861–1865]

From "War Memories" catalog: The Rebel authorities in Charleston placed the Union prisoners in confinement under fire of the Union batteries. When the Union authorities learned of this treatment of our prisoners, they notified the Rebels that unless our prisoners were removed to a place of safety, the Rebel prisoners in our hands would be confined in a stockade on Morris Island, where they would be under fire of the Rebel batteries in and about Charleston. As the Rebel authorities did not heed this warning, this stockade was built and the Rebel prisoners were confined here for a time, under fire of their own batteries.