A painting of a Civil War burial service outside of Fort Pulaski. Four Union soldiers wearing great coats and holding muskets with bayonets fixed stand guard as three Confederates in ragged uniforms stand and kneel beside a freshly dug grave. Two other grave markers can be seen between the soldiers. The northwest bastion of Fort Pulaski is in the background with canons and armed soldiers can be seen over the top.
A Martin Pate painting of a burial service for a member of the Immortal 600, the approximately 500 Confederate officers held as prisoners of war at Fort Pulaski from October 1864 to March 1865. Thirteen Confederate officers died of disease while at Fort Pulaski and remain buried just outside the fort to this day.
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