Military Prisons Of The Civil War

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Portals To Hell

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Author : Lonnie R. Speer
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01

Portals To Hell written by Lonnie R. Speer and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.

The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.

Military Prisons Of The Civil War

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Author : David L. Keller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Military Prisons Of The Civil War written by David L. Keller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.

Ohio S Military Prisons In The Civil War

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Author : Phillip Raymond Shriver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

Ohio S Military Prisons In The Civil War written by Phillip Raymond Shriver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Camp Chase (Ohio) categories.

While In The Hands Of The Enemy

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Author : Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2005-10-01

While In The Hands Of The Enemy written by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-01 with History categories.

During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare.

Military Prisons Of The Civil War

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Author : David L. Keller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-28

Military Prisons Of The Civil War written by David L. Keller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-28 with categories.

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Illustrated Edition

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Author : John McElroy
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2019-07-05

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Illustrated Edition written by John McElroy and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with History categories.

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!

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.

Andersonville Civil War Classics

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Author : John McElroy
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2014-12-16

Andersonville Civil War Classics written by John McElroy and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with History categories.

To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred to Andersonville. This is his eye-opening, bestselling account of his imprisonment in a place where one of every four men died.

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.

Story Of Camp Douglas

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Author : David L. Keller
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015

Story Of Camp Douglas written by David L. Keller and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago. More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed there until it was shut down in 1865. Today, the history of the camp ranges from unknown to deeply misunderstood. David Keller offers a modern perspective of Camp Douglas and a key piece of scholarship in reckoning with the legacy of other military prisons.