TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foote,Lorien
TI  - Yankee plague: escaped Union prisoners and the collapse of the Confederacy 
T2  - Civil War America
SN  - 9781469630571
AV  - E611 .Y365 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Escaped prisoners of war
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; 2; Introduction: the plague --; Escape --; The world in black and white: the collapse of slavery --; They cover the land like the locusts of Egypt: the collapse of the state --; Guardian angels: the collapse of the home front --; God's country: the collapse of borders --; A futile attempt at imprisonment: the collapse of military defense --; Epilogue: terrible times in the past; 2; b
N2  - During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from prison camps into South and North Carolina. In this look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the unravelling of the Confederate States of America
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