Captives in Gray : The Civil War Prisons of the Union /

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prison...

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Autor principal: Pickenpaugh, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Prisons > History > 19th century.
Prisoners of war.
Military prisons.
Armed Forces > Prisons.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Prisons militaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Military prisons > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Prisonniers et prisons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Arrangements should be at once made" : plans and prisoners, 1861
  • "I fear they will prove an elephant" : the first wave of prisoners, 1862
  • "All seem rejoiced at the idea of going" : prisoner exchange, 1862-63
  • "In view of the awful vortex" : the collapse of the cartel and the second wave of prisoners
  • "The first time I ever desired to be in a penitentiary" : capture and transport
  • "Nothing to do & nothing to do it with" : the constant battle with boredom
  • "i had rather bee hear then to bee a marching" : keepers in blue
  • "Don't be so hasty and you may get out" : the possibility of escape
  • "Almost starving in a land of plenty" : rations and retaliation
  • "Inevitable death awaited its victims" : the health of the prisoners
  • "Our honor could in no way be compromised" : the road to release.

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