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Summary

Author
Photograph taken by surgeon A. Hill Messinger. Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, 2013.
Description
English: Unidentified emaciated prisoner of war, from Belle Isle, Richmond, at the U.S. General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis, previously erroneously identified as a picture of one of the survivors of Andersonville Prison , per https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013645513/
فارسی: عکس از یک بازماندگان زندان اندرسون پس از جنگ داخلی آمریکا . اسرای جنگی این زندان که عموما از نیروهای اتحادیه بودند، در شرایط وحشتناکی نگه داشته می‌شدند؛ به طوری که از ۴۵٬۰۰۰ زندانی، ۱۲٬۹۱۳ در اسارت درگذشتند.
Date May 1865
date QS:P571,+1865-05-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3g07966 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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File:Belle Isle prisioneiro.jpg
This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: cropped; removed discolorations, stray marks, and scratches; adjusted color balance . Modifications made by Jujutacular .

Transwiki details

Previously uploaded to en:Wikipedia 23:14, 26 July 2008 by en:User:Fishnut89 at [2] ( log )

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Unidentified emaciated prisoner of war, from Belle Isle, Richmond, at the U.S. General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis, previously erroneously identified as a picture of one of the survivors of Andersonville Prison

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