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Captives in blue : the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy /

Captives in Blue, a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh's earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities. In June of 1861, only a few weeks af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pickenpaugh, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "We all feel deeply on their account" : Richmond prisons, 1861
  • "A very inconvenient and expensive problem" : the search for new prisons
  • "Fresh air tastes delicious" : Virginia prisons and the road to exchange, 1862
  • "This prison in our own country" : Union parole camps
  • "The most villainous thing of the war" : Libby Prison, 1863-64
  • "It looks like starvation here" : Belle Isle, 1863-64
  • "500 here died. 600 ran away" : Danville and beyond, 1864
  • "I dislike the place" : Andersonville, plans and problems
  • "The horrors of war" : Andersonville, the pattern of life and death
  • "All are glad to go somewhere" : the officers' odyssey, 1864-65
  • "A disagreeable dilemma" : Black captives in blue
  • "Worse than Camp Sumter" : from Andersonville to Florence
  • "Will not God deliver us from this hell?" : the downward spiral
  • "I am getting ready to feel quite happy" : exchange and release.