Camp Morton, 1861-1865
Author : Hattie Lou Winslow
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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Author : Hattie Lou Winslow
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455603442
"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.
Author : James Richards Carnahan
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Camp Morton (Ind.)
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Page : 988 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Christopher Clancy
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 141690848X
Kidnapped and sent to live in a disciplinary boot camp where he is physically and psychologically tortured on a daily basis, fifteen-year-old Garrett knows that he has been wrongly imprisoned and so feels there is no choice but to attempt a daring escape in order to save the life he has left in him.
Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811703345
This is the most thorough study of Civil War POW camps, in which some 56,000 died. There are no villains here, though plenty of the inept, the shortsighted, the feebleminded, the sadistic. There is a chain of misperceptions leading to disaster, beginning with early expectations of few POWs and ending with both sides swamped with them and reduced to holding them in notorious pens like Andersonville in the south and Elmira in the north. Speer provides a history of each camp, however long it was in use; portraits of key figures and units; frequently grisly statistics and descriptions of camp life and conditions that are even grislier; and notes on the present condition of major campsites. No story for the weak-stomached, this is a telling indictment of how negligence led to mass death.
Author : William Robeson Holloway
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Camp Morton (Ind.)
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Author : William Dudley Foulke
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Sadie Jean Ritchie
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Camp Morton (Ind.)
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