Tag: prisoners of war
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison by David R. Bush
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison by David R. Bush published by University Press of Florida (2011)…
The Yankee Plague Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote
The Yankee Plague Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote The University of North Carolina Press (2016) As the Confederate…
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd published by LSU Press (2010) 289 pages 410,000 soldiers were held…
When the Confederates Planned to Blow Up Libby Prison to Kill the Prisoners in the Event of a Raid
In February 1865 the Joint Select Committee of the Confederate Congress appointed to investigate the conditions and treatment of prisoners of war issued a report…
Paintings of Prison Life at Point Lookout by a Captive Confederate
John Jacob Omenhausser was born in 1832 in Philadelphia to a German immigrant family. When the Civil War began he was living in Richmond, Virginia….
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield published by Savas Beatie (2020) 192 pages Hellmira: The Union’s…
Visiting Elmira Prison Camp and Cemetery
24 % of the Confederate soldiers held at Elmira prison camp died there. In 2019 I was moving my step-son up to college at SUNY…
Data Gives Hints on Which Union Prisoners of War Survived
In 2017, Earl Hess had an interesting article in the Journal Civil War History. It focuses on the use of the Early Indicators database for…
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael Gray
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael Gray published by Kent State University Press (2001) If every Northerner knew…
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