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Haunted by atrocity : Civil War prisons in American memory  Cover Image Book Book

Haunted by atrocity : Civil War prisons in American memory / Benjamin G. Cloyd.

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  • ISBN: 9780807136416 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0807136417 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xii, 251 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"Our souls are filled with unutterable anguish" : atrocity and the origins of divisive memory, 1861-1865 -- "Remember Andersonville" : recrimination during Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- "This nation cannot afford to forget" : contesting the memory of suffering, 1877-1898 -- "We are the living witnesses" : the limitations of reconciliation, 1898-1914 -- "A more proper perspective" : objectivity in the shadow of twentieth-century war, 1914-1960 -- "Better to take advantage of outsiders' curiosity" : the consumption of objective memory, 1960-present -- "The task of history is never done" : Andersonville National Historic Site, the national POW museum, and the triumph of patriotic memory.
Subject: United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Atrocities.
Military prisons > United States > History > 19th century.
Military prisons > Confederate States of America > History.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century.
Prisoners of war > Confederate States of America.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library E 615 .C58 2010 30541045 General Collection Available -


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