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Captives in gray : the Civil War prisons of the Union / Roger Pickenpaugh.

Pickenpaugh, Roger. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780817316525 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817316523 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"Arrangements should be at once made" : plans and prisoners, 1861 -- "I fear they will prove an elephant" : the first wave of prisoners, 1862 -- "All seem rejoiced at the idea of going" : prisoner exchange, 1862-63 -- "In view of the awful vortex" : the collapse of the cartel and the second wave of prisoners -- "The first time I ever desired to be in a penitentiary" : capture and transport -- "Nothing to do & nothing to do it with" : the constant battle with boredom -- "i had rather bee hear then to bee a marching" : keepers in blue -- "Don't be so hasty and you may get out" : the possibility of escape -- "Almost starving in a land of plenty" : rations and retaliation -- "Inevitable death awaited its victims" : the health of the prisoners -- "Our honor could in no way be compromised" : the road to release.