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"Prisonsers who died at Andersonville Prison", Camp Morton, Indianapolis military camps, Libby Prison and Belle Isle, story of an escape from Camp Ford Prison.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Camp Morton (Ind.)
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"Prisonsers who died at Andersonville Prison", Camp Morton, Indianapolis military camps, Libby Prison and Belle Isle, story of an escape from Camp Ford Prison.
Author : Cheryl A. Wells
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820326573
Focusing on the US Civil War, Cheryl Wells looks at how it played havoc with people's perception and use of time, including interrupted periods of sleep, indefinite prison sentences and extended hours of work. Wells calls this 'battle time' and she looks at its effects on civilians, as well as those involved in the fighting itself.
Author : Thomas A. Tripp
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Military prisons
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Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 081731783X
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.
Author : William Hartley Jeffrey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019671733
This harrowing account of life in a Confederate prison during the Civil War is based on original records kept by both the Confederate government and Union prisoners of war. Featuring detailed accounts of the experiences of individual inmates, this book provides a unique window into a dark chapter in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Major Jack Morris Ivy Jr.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1782898840
Camp Chase, four miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio, began in May 1861 as a mustering center for units entering Union service during the American Civil War. By June 1861 it picked up additional responsibilities of housing Confederate prisoners captured by Ohio units during the earliest military actions of the war. It eventually expanded to hold 9,423 prisoners in Jan. 1865, which made it one of the larger Union prison camps. The earliest prisoners were afforded extraordinary leniency by state authorities until the Union government stepped in with rules and regulations. By Oct. 1862, an effective system was in place to secure and care for prisoners. Success continued despite fluxuations in prison population, disease and a constant influx of captured wounded, until Aug. 1864 when rations were reduced in retribution for Confederate treatment of Union captives. Ration reduction caused prisoners hardships but did not markedly increase mortality. Quality medical care and sanitation kept mortality below Union Army deaths from disease. As prison population soared during the last months of the war, increasing numbers of wounded, severely exposed and weakened captives joined Camp Chase. Reduced rations continued to pose hardships but ration reduction was offset by superb medical care and sanitation which continued to keep mortality below that experienced by the Union Army from disease. ...Prisoners were well treated up to the time rations were reduced in retaliation for alleged Confederate cruelities to Union prisoners. In spite of this, Camp Chase officials continued to stress sanitation and provide clothing late in the war even though they were not obligated to do so. This demonstrated that officials at Camp Chase were successful in managing a prisoner of war camp, even during the period of Union retaliation.
Author : U. S. Army Command and General Staff Col
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781519611406
The Civil War was and still is a controversial period in our nation's history. Reasons for the war and policies of the opposing governments continue to stir interest and debate among scholars even today, 135 years after the issue was "resolved". During the war, newspapers carried headlines of atrocities, especially in the Union, after the exchange of prisoners halted and misery multiplied in Confederate prisons not equipped to handle increasing populations. Emotions and tempers flared, then, resulted in retribution on both sides.
Author : Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807130612
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.
Author : Charles Alfred Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Jails
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Author : Hattie Lou Winslow
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2013-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781482678703
This volume contains a history of Camp Morton, the prison camp for Confederate soldiers in Indianapolis, Indiana during the Civil War.