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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Civil War Prisons
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Author : William Best Hesseltine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Civil War Prisons written by William Best Hesseltine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with United States categories.
Civil War Prisons
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Author : William Best Hesseltine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Civil War Prisons written by William Best Hesseltine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
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.
Civil War Prisons
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Author : William B. Hesseltine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Civil War Prisons written by William B. Hesseltine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with United States categories.