Haunted by Atrocity : Civil War Prisons in American Memory /

During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the warAEs shocking violence, the intensity of the prisonersAE suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administ...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cloyd, Benjamin G., 1976-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Prisons militaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Prisons militaires > États confederes d'Amerique > Histoire.
Prisonniers de guerre > États confederes d'Amerique.
Prisoners of war.
Military prisons.
Memory > Social aspects.
Atrocities.
HISTORY.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Prisoners of war > Confederate States of America.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century.
Military prisons > Confederate States of America > History.
Military prisons > United States > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Prisonniers et prisons.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Atrocities.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • "Our souls are filled with unutterable anguish" : atrocity and the origins of divisive memory, 1861-1865
  • "Remember Andersonville" : recrimination during Reconstruction, 1865-1877
  • "This nation cannot afford to forget" : contesting the memory of suffering, 1877-1898
  • "We are the living witnesses" : the limitations of reconciliation, 1898-1914
  • "A more proper perspective" : objectivity in the shadow of twentieth-century war, 1914-1960
  • "Better to take advantage of outsiders' curiosity" : the consumption of objective memory, 1960-present
  • "The task of history is never done" : Andersonville National Historic Site, the national POW museum, and the triumph of patriotic memory
  • Conclusion.

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