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"In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transported to South Carolina, where most were confined in a Union stockade prison on Morris Island.They were placed in front of two Union forts as &quot;&quot;human shields&quot;&quot; during the siege of Charleston and exposed to a fearful barrage of artillery fire from Confederate forts. Many of these men would suffer an even worse ordeal at Union-held Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia, where they were subjected to severe food rationing as retaliatory policy. Author and historian Karen Stokes uses the prisoners&#39; writings to relive the courage, fraternity and struggle of the &quot;&quot;Immortal 600.&quot;&quot;"
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