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A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa /

"From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Genoways, Ted, Genoways, Hugh H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
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  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EDITORS' NOTE; PROLOGUE; EYEWITNESSACCOUNT John H. Stibbs, Company D Account of Surrender at Shiloh; PRISON ACCOUNTS: ENLISTEDMEN Charles l. Sumbardo, Company I Incidents of Prison Life; George Erwin Comstock, Company C Reminiscences of S.C. Beck in Prison Life; Letter: October 24, 1862; Letter: November 5, 1862; Bryon P. Zuver, Company D Prisoner of War; PRISON ACCOUNTS: LIEUTENANTS Luther W. Jackson, Company H A Prison Diary; John W. Gift, Company Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862; Joseph B. Dorr, Company I Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion
  • Letter: June 11, 1862Letter: July 16, 1862; PRISON ACCOUNTS: OFFICERS John H. Stibbs, Company D An Account of Southern Prisons; An Open Letter; Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I Incidents of Prison Life in 1862; William W. Warner, Company C; Letter: May 23, 1862; Letter: May 28, 1862; Letter: June 13, 1862; RELEASE AND PAROLE Erastus B. Soper, Company D Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis; EYEWITNESSACCOUNT Erastus B. Soper, Company D Excerpts from the ''History of Company D, 12th Iowa''
  • PRISON ACCOUNT Allen M. Blanchard, Company D Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of WarPRISON ACCOUNT George Erwin Comstock, Company C A Prison Diary; EYEWITNESSACCOUNTS Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: Letter from an Eye Witness; William l. Henderson, Company C Letter: July 21, 1864; PRISON ACCOUNTS Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: Prepared by Himself
  • John De Vine, Company I An Account of Castle Morgan, CahabaJ. Warren Cotes, Company I A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of the Men Captured at Tupelo, July 15th, 1864; An Open Letter; EPILOGUE; John H. Stibbs Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz; Biographies of individuals mentioned in the accounts; Notes; Literature Cited; Index