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Captives in blue : the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy

Title
Captives in blue : the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh.
Author
Pickenpaugh, Roger.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.

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TextUse in library IKI 13-4239Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Description
x, 303 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-294) and index.
Contents
"We all feel deeply on their account" : Richmond prisons, 1861 -- "A very inconvenient and expensive problem" : the search for new prisons -- "Fresh air tastes delicious" : Virginia prisons and the road to exchange, 1862 -- "This prison in our own country" : Union parole camps -- "The most villainous thing of the war" : Libby Prison, 1863-64 -- "It looks like starvation here" : Belle Isle, 1863-64 -- "500 here died. 600 ran away" : Danville and beyond, 1864 -- "I dislike the place" : Andersonville, plans and problems -- "The horrors of war" : Andersonville, the pattern of life and death -- "All are glad to go somewhere" : the officers' odyssey, 1864-65 -- "A disagreeable dilemma" : Black captives in blue -- "Worse than Camp Sumter" : from Andersonville to Florence -- "Will not God deliver us from this hell?" : the downward spiral -- "I am getting ready to feel quite happy" : exchange and release.
Call Number
IKI 13-4239
ISBN
  • 9780817317836 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
  • 081731783X (trade cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780817386511 (ebook)
  • 0817386513 (ebook)
LCCN
  • 2012031751
  • 40022233557
OCLC
794036147
Author
Pickenpaugh, Roger.
Title
Captives in blue : the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-294) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40022233557
Research Call Number
IKI 13-4239
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