<span>*Includes pictures<br>*Includes accounts of the prison written by surviving prisoners<br>*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading<br>*Includes a table of contents<br><br>βWuld that I was an artist & had the material to paint this camp & all its horors or the tounge of
Prison Camps of the Civil War
β Scribed by Linda R. Wade
- Publisher
- ABDO Publishing Company;ABDO Publishing;Abdo & Daughters
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 34
- Series
- Civil War
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate prisoners were housed t
"This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865. In 1891, while a patient at the Leavenworth National Home, Irish immigrant Edward Glennan began to write down his experiences in vivid detai
This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865. In 1891, while a patient at the Leavenworth National Home, Irish immigrant Edward Glennan began to write down his experiences in vivid detail
On the evening of July 11, 1864, six men were marched into Andersonville Prison, surrounded by a cordon of guards, the prison commandant, and a Roman Catholic priest. The six men were handed over to a small execution squad, and while more than 26,000 Union prisoners looked on, the six were executed
The camp held a number of prisoners such as Gunter d'Alquen, the journalist; Otto Kretschmer, the 'Wolf of the Atlantic'; and Paul Werner Hoppe, former commandant of Stutthof Concentration Camp in Poland. The history of its inception and creation are described, as is the daily life of the prisoners.