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Portals to hell : military prisons of the Civil War / by Speer, Lonnie R.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-398) and index.Overview on tragedy, 1861 -- Makeshift prisons -- Life as a prisoner of war, 1862 -- Prison creation -- Prisoner exchange -- Black soldiers and POWs, 1863 -- Prison expansion -- The overseers, 1864 -- The growing prison crisis -- Escape, 1864-5 -- Prison compounds -- Release and revenge -- Epilogue : past and present -- Appendix A : the language of the prison camps -- Appendix B : medical glossary -- Appendix C : prison quick-reference guide.
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war;
© 2005., University of Nebraska Press,
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While in the hands of the enemy : military prisons of the Civil War / by Sanders, Charles W.,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-376) and index.A people unprepared -- "The crisis is fast approaching": the initial prisoners -- "They had not been expected in such numbers": the Confederate prisoner-of-war system, July-December 1861 -- "A state of perpetual twilight": the Union prisoner-of-war system, June-December 1861 -- "Our government must change its policy": the move to the exchange cartel of 1862 -- The period of exchange under the cartel: July 1862-December 1863 -- Prelude to catastrophe: Union and Confederate prisons, July-December 1863 -- "Disgraceful to all concerned": the Union and Confederate prisoner-of-war systems, 1864 -- "Too sad to be patiently considered": the end and afterlife of the prison systems -- "The real cause of the suffering": testimony, evidence, and verdict.
Subjects: Military prisons; Military prisons; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war;
© c2005., Louisiana State University Press,
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Captives in gray : the Civil War prisons of the Union / by Pickenpaugh, Roger.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index."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.
Subjects: United States; United States. Army; Military prisons;
© c2009., University of Alabama Press,
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Alcatraz-- the history of an island prison : from the development to an American myth / by Van Raaphorst, Donna L.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / by John Holian -- Mythical Alcatraz -- Discovery : twenty-two acres of barren rock -- The United States Army takes over -- The transition from post to prison -- A new type of prison for a new age -- The heart of the myth : a statistical analysis of the inmates -- Colorful inmates -- Life on the island for two different populations -- Escape from Alcatraz -- The end of an era -- Native American takeover -- Alcatraz today.
Subjects: Prisons; United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California; Military Prison at Alcatraz Island, California;
© c2011., Edwin Mellen Press,
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Twelve months in Andersonville / [electronic resource]. by Long, Lessel.;
There are many books on the horrors of the Confederate prisons but Lessel Long's Andersonville memoir stands out for its graphic detail and official corroboration of what he suffered. He lost good friends and nearly died before his release late in the war. He was determined the world would know what they had been through.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1750 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Andersonville Prison.; Nonfiction.; History.; Military.; Prisoners of war;
© 2017., BIG BYTE BOOKS,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3248132 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Haunted by atrocity : Civil War prisons in American memory / by Cloyd, Benjamin G.,1976-;
"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.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Military prisons; Military prisons; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Memory;
© c2010., Louisiana State University Press,
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Andersonvilles of the North : the myths and realities of Northern treatment of Civil War Confederate prisoners / by Gillispie, James Massie,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index.Servants of the devil and Jeff Davis : the Northern version of the POW experiences, 1865-1920 -- The lost cause and the Southern side of the POW debate, 1865-1920 -- Continuity and change : modern writers and the issues of Federal treatment of Confederate prisoners -- Union policies, 1861-1865 -- Federal policies at the four major prisons in Illinois and Indiana -- Federal policies at the major Ohio prisons -- Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, and Elmira -- The omnipresent specter of disease."Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to "whitewash" Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable wartime records and documents from both Northern and Southern sources, then a much different, less negative, picture of Northern prison life emerges. While life in Northern prisons was difficult and potentially deadly, no evidence exists of a conspiracy to neglect or mistreat Southern captives. Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them."--Jacket.
Subjects: United States. Army; Military prisons; Military prisons; Military prisons; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; Sezessionskrieg; Kriegsgefangene; Kriegsgefangenenlager; Militärgefängnis; Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865>; Kriegsgefangener.; Behandlung.;
© c2008., University of North Texas Press,
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Flyboys : a true story of courage / by Bradley, James,1954-; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.The story of Japanese and American fighter pilots and their battle over the Pacific during the Second World War. Focusing primarily on nine American pilots who were gunned down and captured by the Japanese on the isolated island of Chichi Jim, Bradley reveals the unsettling fate of these captured men, a story kept secret for sixty years.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Air pilots, Military; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; War crime trials;
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Ghost soldiers : the epic account of World War II's greatest rescue mission / by Sides, Hampton.;
Includes bibliographical references.During World War II, 121 Marines slip behind enemy lines in the Philippines to rescue 513 POWs, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, in an epic show of bravery for both groups.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2002., Anchor Books,
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Confederate heroines : 120 southern women convicted by Union military justice / by Lowry, Thomas P.(Thomas Power),1932-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.Missouri -- Maryland -- Tennessee -- South of the line -- North of the line -- It takes a village -- Epilogue: Where are the others?"From 1861 through 1865, southern women fought a war within a war. While most of their efforts involved activities such as rolling bandages and organizing charity fairs, many women in the Confederacy, particularly in border states, challenged Federal authority in more direct ways: smuggling maps, medicine, and munitions; aiding deserters; spying; feeding Confederate bushwhackers; cutting Federal telegraph wires. Thomas P. Lowry's investigation into some 75,000 Federal courts-martial - uncovered in National Archives files and mostly unexamined since the Civil War - brings to light women caught up in the inexorable Unionist judicial machinery. Their stories, published here for the first time, often in first-person testimony, compose a picture of courage and resourcefulness in the face of social, military, and legal constraints."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Women prisoners of war; Women; Women; Military courts;
© c2006., Louisiana State University Press,
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