American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents

Chromolithograph, 1886, image 33 7/8 x 22 3/4 in. (sheet 37 1/2 x 27 1/8 in.), on wove paper, minor soil, short marginal tears with evidence of repair, framed to 45 x 35 in., not examined out of frame. 

An illustration of the infamous Confederate prison, compiled from a sketch made on site in 1864, probably following its occupation by federal forces. The lithograph presents the prison camp set up on the grounds of a large "cotton factory," in which the prisoners had to work. It also shows the tents and pits dug into the ground where Union soldiers were forced to live. A key in the lower margin identifies 12 sites, including an "old well," "Brick Houses used for Officers Prisons," and "Hole from which Prisoners tunneled and escaped."