The Resurrection of Cain

In February 1864, the Confederate States of America opened a POW camp
that originally covered about 16.5 acres. It was enclosed by a 15-foot high
stockade made of rough-hewn logs. A fence known as "the dead line" was erected
approximately 19 feet within the borders of the grim stockade walls. It
demarcated a no-man's land designed to keep prisoners away from the stockade
wall. Any man crossing or even touching the dead line was shot without warning
by sentries in the watch towers. Before th...