One of the great atrocities of the war perpetrated by the Federals was the placement of 600 Confederate Prisoners of War - mostly officers in the direct line of fire on Morris Island in the Charleston Harbor.

The Confederate officers, who were prisoners of war on Morris Island, Charleston Harbor; received daily rations, consisting of three moldy crackers, two ounces of a boiled pickled meat, and a gill of bean soup.

One of these prisoners wrote: "The sand frequently got so hot that is was impossible to walk upon it in our bare feet. The yankees at no time gave any articles of clothing, bedding, or anything to shelter the person from observation, the chilling blast, or the burning rays of the sun.....Thus we starved day after day."

"The whole heaven were illuminated and the mortar shells were dartin through the heavens in all direction as though the sky were full of meteors. Moultrie had opened with all her mortar and for some time continued to throw her shells either into either Wagner or Greg, the federal forts around their stockade. At last one came that looked as if it would surely fall upon me. It came closer and faster, and finally burst right over us."

South Carolina Prisoners at Hart's Island, NY.