Port Hudson Prisoners?

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Ran across this photo while searching through the Marshall Dunham photo collection, which includes many from the Port Hudson battlefield. It looked familiar, but too blurry to really tell who the men lined up are; nothing useful in the description either. Zooming in, it appears as though they could be wearing Confederate uniforms.

Port Hudson prisoners 1.jpg

Zoom in on the image here: http://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-mdp:452

After doing a quick google search to see if I could find it elsewhere, this is all that turned up:
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/porthudson/visitor2.htm

What appears to be the same photo at the Port Hudson battlefield visitors center is labeled "CSA POW's at Port Hudson." I'm a geek for any images of Confederate prisoners or Confederates in the field. If these men are prisoners from the Port Hudson garrison then this is a remarkable photo indeed, as there are few out there of Western Theater Confederates right off the field. If only it was a bit less blurry!
 
While searching through the Marshall Dunham photo collection, particularly those of the Port Hudson battlefield, I came across this photo. It looked familiar, but too blurry to really tell who the men lined up are; nothing useful in the description either. Zooming in, it appears as though they could be wearing Confederate uniforms.

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(Go to link to zoom in further)
http://cdm16313.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/LSU_MDP/id/509/show/489

After doing a quick google search to see if I could find it elsewhere, this is all that turned up:
http://www.civilwaralbum.com/porthudson/visitor2.htm

What appears to be the same photo at the Port Hudson battlefield visitors center is apparently labeled as "CSA POW's at Port Hudson". I'm a geek for any images of Confederate prisoners or Confederates in the field. If these men are prisoners from the Port Hudson garrison than this is a remarkable photo indeed, as there are few out there of western theater Confederates right off the field. If only this was a bit less blurry!


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Confederate Captain Robert Houston Isbell, Company D 1st Alabama Infantry. Paternal 4 x 2nd cousin. Mentioned in the OR :War Of The Rebellion: Serial 025 Page 0608 West Tenn. And Northern Miss. Chapter Xxix. "Colonel Shelby reports enemy's cavalry (300) at Tallahatchie Bridge. Skirmishing this morning. He fears that he cannot hold the bridge until night. I ordered Captain Isbell, with his battalion, to proceed to that point night before last, and he is about leaving." Captain Isbell was captured at the surrender of Port Hudson, La. July 9, 1863. He spent the remainder of the war a prisoner at Johnson's Island.
 
Here is another CDV that I think might depict either prisoners or Union soldiers at work. The men in white shirts (as in the OP) look like they are working under the guard of at least one Union soldier. Source.

cdv siege of port hudson louisiana 1863.jpg


All of the McPherson and Oliver CDVs of the battlefield I've seen appear to have been taken after the siege while some of their stereoviews were taken during and some after the siege.
 
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