Prison Camps Of The Civil War
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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.
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.
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.
Sketches In Prison Camps
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Author : Charles C. Nott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Sketches In Prison Camps written by Charles C. Nott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with Camp Ford (Tex.) categories.
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
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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.
Sketches In Prison Camps A Continuation Of Sketches Of The War
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Author : Charles C. Nott
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-13
Sketches In Prison Camps A Continuation Of Sketches Of The War written by Charles C. Nott and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with History categories.
This collection of stories presents a harrowing and highly-realistic account of life as a prisoner of the confederate army during the American civil war. This anthology of short stories or sketches shows different sides of life as a prisoner of war with some graphic detail and colourful descriptions; it is a worthy read in the style of a classic war story. Written by Colonel Charles C. Nott.
Hellmira
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Author : Derek Maxfield
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2020-05-15
Hellmira written by Derek Maxfield and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with History categories.
An in-depth history of the inhumane Union Civil War prison camp that became known as “the Andersonville of the North.” Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed only from the summer of 1864 to July 1865, but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man. Confederate prisoners called it “Hellmira.” Hastily constructed, poorly planned, and overcrowded, prisoner of war camps North and South were dumping grounds for the refuse of war. An unfortunate necessity, both sides regarded the camps as temporary inconveniences—and distractions from the important task of winning the war. There was no need, they believed, to construct expensive shelters or provide better rations. They needed only to sustain life long enough for the war to be won. Victory would deliver prisoners from their conditions. As a result, conditions in the prisoner of war camps amounted to a great humanitarian crisis, the extent of which could hardly be understood even after the blood stopped flowing on the battlefields. In the years after the war, as Reconstruction became increasingly bitter, the North pointed to Camp Sumter—better known as the Andersonville POW camp in Americus, Georgia—as evidence of the cruelty and barbarity of the Confederacy. The South, in turn, cited the camp in Elmira as a place where Union authorities withheld adequate food and shelter and purposefully caused thousands to suffer in the bitter cold. This finger-pointing by both sides would go on for over a century. And as it did, the legend of Hellmira grew. In this book, Derek Maxfield contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed exchange of prisoners, and tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the prison camp in Elmira. In the end, Maxfield suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure. Praise for Hellmira “A unique and informative contribution to the growing library of Civil War histories...Important and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review “A good book, and the author should be congratulated.” —Civil War News
Andersonville And Camp Douglas
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-24
Andersonville And Camp Douglas written by Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-24 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Wuld that I was an artist & had the material to paint this camp & all its horors or the tounge of some eloquent Statesman and had the privleage of expresing my mind to our hon. rulers at Washington, I should gloery to describe this hell on earth where it takes 7 of its ocupiants to make a shadow." - Sgt. David Kennedy "There is so much filth about the camp that it is terrible trying to live here." - Michigan cavalryman John Ransom Notorious, a hell on earth, a cesspool, a death camp, and infamous have all been used by prisoners and critics to describe Andersonville Prison, constructed to house Union prisoners of war in 1864, and all descriptions apply. Located in Andersonville, Georgia and known colloquially as Camp Sumter, Andersonville only served as a prison camp for 14 months, but during that time 45,000 Union soldiers suffered there, and nearly 13,000 died. Victims found at the end of the war who had been held at Camp Sumter resembled victims of Auschwitz, starving and left to die with no regard for human life.Rumors about the horrors of Andersonville were making the rounds by the summer of 1864, and they were bad enough that during the Atlanta campaign, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman gave orders for a cavalry raid attempting to liberate the prisoners there. The Union cavalry were repulsed by Southern militia and cavalry at that point, and even after Sherman took Atlanta, the retreating Confederates moved under the assumption that the Union would target Andersonville yet again. Before the end of the war, the Confederates were moving prisoners from Andersonville to Camp Lawton, but by then, Andersonville was already synonymous with horror. Unable to supply its own armies, the Confederates had inadequately supplied the prison and its thousands of Union prisoners, leaving over 25% of the prisoners to die of starvation and disease. All told, Andersonville accounted for 40% of the deaths of all Union prisoners in the South, and the causes of death included malnutrition, disease, poor sanitation, overcrowding, and exposure to inclement weather. In fact, Andersonville infuriated the North so much that Henry Wirz, the man in charge of Andersonville, was the only Confederate executed after the war. When Union forces marched through Georgia and liberated Andersonville in May 1865, photographers were brought in to record the scenes of overcrowding, sickness, and death, ensuring the sight was preserved for future generations to see. Conversely, Camp Douglas, closed at roughly the same time, was torn down, and its very existence was nearly wiped from memory. The attempt to forget Camp Douglas was understandable, because in the last two years of the war, at least 4,000 Confederate prisoners died there, meaning nearly 1 in 5 Confederates who were sent there never left. In many ways, the story of Camp Douglas is the story of the Civil War itself. The camp got its start as a brand new facility filled with men ready to fight a war that most on both sides believed would last only a few months. However, as the war went on, the facilities were overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the damage and the massive numbers of people involved. In the first few years of the war, the kind of total war practiced by Grant and Sherman in 1864 was unthinkable, and the two sides liberally conducted prisoner exchanges and paroled prisoners based solely on their word. As time passed, however, bitterness hardened between the two sides, and the war aims changed as the North looked for new strategies to finally subdue the South. The resulting chain of events led to the horrors of Camp Douglas. This book examines how Andersonville and Camp Douglas became so notorious, and what life was like there for the prisoners.
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.