Existing comment:
This caged-in area is the Fort Pulaski Prison. From the sign:
"Our new ration of corn meal (sour), pickles, and seventy-five loaves of bread went into effect yesterday, and a terrible diet it is. That it will kill some is evident." -- from the diary of Captain H Dickinson.
Captain Dickinson and over five hundred of his fellow Confederate Officers were imprisoned here from October 1864 to March 1865. The prison included all of the casemates in the southeast and south galleries. |