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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Auteur principal: Pickenpaugh, Roger
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor. Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in careful deta.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (301 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780817390181

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