Civil War Prisons
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Civil War Prisons
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Author : William Best Hesseltine
language : en
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1972
Civil War Prisons written by William Best Hesseltine and has been published by Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
"The articles in this book carefully consider the passionate and partisan documents of the era in order to arrive at a clear, dispassionate understanding of the prisons North and South, how they were administered, and what life for the captured soldiers was like" - from back cover.
Transforming Civil War Prisons
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Author : Paul J. Springer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Transforming Civil War Prisons written by Paul J. Springer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with History categories.
During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides. With resources strained by the unprecedented number of prisoners, conditions in overcrowded prison camps were dismal, and the death toll across Confederate and Union prisons reached 56,000 by the end of the war. In an attempt to improve prison conditions, President Lincoln issued General Orders 100, which would become the basis for future attempts to define the rights of prisoners, including the Geneva conventions. Meanwhile, stories of horrific prison experiences fueled political agendas on both sides, and would define the memory of the war, as each region worked aggressively to defend its prison record and to honor its own POWs. Robins and Springer examine the experience, culture, and politics of captivity, including war crimes, disease, and the use of former prison sites as locations of historical memory. Transforming Civil War Prisons introduces students to an underappreciated yet crucial aspect of waging war and shows how the legacy of Civil War prisons remains with us today.
Andersonvilles Of The North
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Author : James Massie Gillispie
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2008
Andersonvilles Of The North written by James Massie Gillispie and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.
Prison Camps Of The Civil War
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Author : Linda R. Wade
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2010-09
Prison Camps Of The Civil War written by Linda R. Wade and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Looks at the situation of prisoners in the Civil War, where they were held, their care, and eventual exchange or release, including diagrams of Andersonville and Libby Prisons.
Andersonville
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Author : Raymond F. Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Andersonville written by Raymond F. Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Captives In Blue
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Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2013-02-04
Captives In Blue written by Roger Pickenpaugh and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-04 with History categories.
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 after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each side continue to vilify the other for POW maltreatment. Roger Pickenpaugh's two studies of Civil War prisoners of war facilities complement one another and offer a thoughtful exploration of issues that captives taken from both sides of the Civil War faced. In Captives in Blue, Pickenpaugh tackles issues such as the ways the Confederate Army contended with the growing prison population, the variations in the policies and practices inthe different Confederate prison camps, the effects these policies and practices had on Union prisoners, and the logistics of prisoner exchanges. Digging further into prison policy and practices, Pickenpaugh explores conditions that arose from conscious government policy decisions and conditions that were the product of local officials or unique local situations. One issue unique to Captives in Blue is the way Confederate prisons and policies dealt with African American Union soldiers. Black soldiers held captive in Confederate prisons faced uncertain fates; many former slaves were returned to their former owners, while others were tortured in the camps. Drawing on prisoner diaries, Pickenpaugh provides compelling first-person accounts of life in prison camps often overlooked by scholars in the field.
Civil War Prisons Escapes
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Author : Robert E. Denney
language : en
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Release Date : 1993
Civil War Prisons Escapes written by Robert E. Denney and has been published by Sterling Publishing (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Chronicles life in the prisons of both sides during the Civil War, included are several pictures of Charleston.
Captives In Gray
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Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2009-05-24
Captives In Gray written by Roger Pickenpaugh and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-24 with History categories.
Contains contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps 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 detail (Camp Chase) and now turns his attention to the Union record in its entirety, to investigate variations between camps and overall prison policy and to determine as nearly as possible what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He also attempts to determine what conditions resulted from conscious government policy or were the product of local officials and situations. A companion to Pickenpaugh's Captives in Blue.
Prison Camps In The Civil War
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Author : Douglas Savage
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Release Date : 2000
Prison Camps In The Civil War written by Douglas Savage and has been published by Chelsea House Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the situation of prisoners in the Civil War, the 150 Federal and Confederate prison camps where they were held, and their care.
Den Of Misery
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2006-03-31
Den Of Misery written by and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-31 with History categories.
"Shines the harsh light of truth on a forgotten--and whitewashed--chapter of American history. Graphic and sometimesappalling, James R. Hall's account of conditions at Indianapolis's Camp Morton is necessary reading for anyone who prefers genuine history to the sanitized version."--Brian D. Smith, member, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel , 1983 The term"prison abuse scandal" has become a familiar phrase in our lifetime. But long before this phrase was used on the nightly news, truths about the treatment of enemy prisoners were defiantly denied, and the media-whose primary sources (much like today) were politicians and military officials-inevitably distorted the facts. In the case of Camp Morton, however, records exist from the firsthand accounts of prisoners, who were extremely vocal about their experiences after the Civil War ended. Confederate veterans who had been held at Camp Morton and heard that prominent Union officials were calling it a"model" Civil War prison were enraged and inspired to proclaim the truth about their suffering. Their experiences first were revealed publicly by former Morton prisoner, prominent physician, and medical researcher Dr. John A. Wyeth. James R. Hall has picked up where Dr. Wyeth left off, making the Camp Morton controversy known to a new generation. Den of Misery: Indiana's Civil War Prison details the cover-ups and denials as well as the cruel realities of the prison camp and chronicles the efforts by Confederate veterans to make known the truth about their experiences. The author includes a full list of prisoners who died at Camp Morton and are buried in a mass grave in Indianapolis.