Captives in blue the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy /
Pickenpaugh, Roger.
Captives in blue the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"We all feel deeply on their account" : Richmond prisons, 1861 -- "A very inconvenient and expensive problem" : the search for new prisons -- "Fresh air tastes delicious" : Virginia prisons and the road to exchange, 1862 -- "This prison in our own country" : Union parole camps -- "The most villainous thing of the war" : Libby Prison, 1863-64 -- "It looks like starvation here" : Belle Isle, 1863-64 -- "500 here died. 600 ran away" : Danville and beyond, 1864 -- "I dislike the place" : Andersonville, plans and problems -- "The horrors of war" : Andersonville, the pattern of life and death -- "All are glad to go somewhere" : the officers' odyssey, 1864-65 -- "A disagreeable dilemma" : Black captives in blue -- "Worse than Camp Sumter" : from Andersonville to Florence -- "Will not God deliver us from this hell?" : the downward spiral -- "I am getting ready to feel quite happy" : exchange and release.
9780817386511
Confederate States of America. Army --Prisons.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military prisons--History.--Confederate States of America
Prisoners of war--Confederate States of America.
Prisoners of war--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E611 / .I947 2013
Captives in blue the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"We all feel deeply on their account" : Richmond prisons, 1861 -- "A very inconvenient and expensive problem" : the search for new prisons -- "Fresh air tastes delicious" : Virginia prisons and the road to exchange, 1862 -- "This prison in our own country" : Union parole camps -- "The most villainous thing of the war" : Libby Prison, 1863-64 -- "It looks like starvation here" : Belle Isle, 1863-64 -- "500 here died. 600 ran away" : Danville and beyond, 1864 -- "I dislike the place" : Andersonville, plans and problems -- "The horrors of war" : Andersonville, the pattern of life and death -- "All are glad to go somewhere" : the officers' odyssey, 1864-65 -- "A disagreeable dilemma" : Black captives in blue -- "Worse than Camp Sumter" : from Andersonville to Florence -- "Will not God deliver us from this hell?" : the downward spiral -- "I am getting ready to feel quite happy" : exchange and release.
9780817386511
Confederate States of America. Army --Prisons.
United States--History--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military prisons--History.--Confederate States of America
Prisoners of war--Confederate States of America.
Prisoners of war--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic Books.
E611 / .I947 2013