Two staff members examining prisoner. The Bertillon system was a means of identifying persons by creating a detailed record of body measurements, physical description, and sometimes Photographs From the Quadrennial Report of the Board of Inspectors...
This article discusses activities and news at Camp Clark in Mobile, Alabama, where the men are preparing to fight in the Spanish-American War. Two companies from Mobile are supposed to join the camp, but only one has reported as planned.
The Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor was shut down and the office placed under federal guard in 1868. This was probably due to the inflammatory anti-carpetbagger and anti-scalawag editorials and political cartoons for which it was renown.