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Author : Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130612
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book While in the Hands of the Enemy written by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare.
Author : John McElroy
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Andersonville (Illustrated) written by John McElroy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andersonville" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells his story about the time he spent as a prisoner of Andersonville and a few other Confederate prisons he was kept at. The book is full of interesting stories and amazing facts about the Confederate prison system and the way prisoners were treated in the South!
Author : Earl J. Hess
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700633960
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book July 22 written by Earl J. Hess and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So remarkable was the fighting to the east of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, that it earned its place as the only engagement of the Civil War to be widely referred to by the date of its occurrence. Also known as the Battle of Atlanta, this was the largest engagement of the four-month-long Atlanta Campaign for control of the city and the region. Although Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s forces flanked William T. Sherman’s line and were able to crush the end of it, they could go no further. On July 22, 1864, the Confederates came closer to achieving a major tactical victory than on any other day of the Atlanta Campaign. Prolific Civil War historian Earl Hess’s July 22 is a thorough study of all aspects of the most prominent battle of the Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign. Based on exhaustive research in primary sources, Hess has crafted a unique and compelling study of not only the tactics and strategy associated with the engagement but also of the personal experiences of Union and Confederate soldiers and the effects the battle had on them. This book offers fresh insights to the significance that the Battle of July 22 held for the larger Atlanta campaign and the entire Union war effort. Hess also provides a thorough discussion of the death of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson, the most prominent casualty of the battle, and the effect this loss had on Union soldiers and civilians alike. He concludes with an assessment of the battle’s legacy in American history and culture. Detailing one of the larger and more vigorously fought battles of the Civil War, Hess’s treatment of the Battle of Atlanta stands out as a strong example of Civil War operational history. The combination of maneuver, unit handling, stout combat by the individual soldier, and combative spirit on both sides make July 22 one of the most fascinating and remarkable battles in American history. There is much for the student of military history to learn on many levels of tactics, the experience of combat, and battlefield leadership.
Author : David Evans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213198
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Sherman's Horsemen written by David Evans and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-22 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching Atlanta in July of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman knew he was facing the most important campaign of his career. Lacking the troops and the desire to mount a long siege of the city, Sherman was eager for a quick, decisive victory. A change of tactics was in order. He decided to call on the cavalry. Over the next seven weeks, Sherman's horsemen - under the command of Generals Rousseau, Garrard, Stoneman, McCook, and Kilpatrick - destroyed supplies and tore up miles of railroad track in an attempt to isolate the city. This book tells the story of those raids. After initial successes, the cavalrymen found themselves caught up in a series of daring and deadly engagements, including a failed attempt to push south to liberate the prisoners at the infamous prison camp at Andersonville. Through exhaustive research, David Evans has been able to recreate a vivid, captivating, and meticulously detailed image of the day-by-day life of the Union horse soldier. Based largely upon previously unpublished materials, Sherman's Horsemen provides the definitive account of this hitherto neglected aspect of the American Civil War.
Author : Michael P. Gray
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873387088
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Business of Captivity written by Michael P. Gray and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Anderson, and the Union prison at Elmira, suffering was accute and mortality was high. This work explores the economic and social impact of Elmira.
Author : D. Reid Ross
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791476413
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Veteran Volunteers Win the War written by D. Reid Ross and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley.
Author : James Madison Page
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The History of Andersonville Prison written by James Madison Page and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings his defense of the prison commander Henry Wirz, who was charged by the U.S. Government and executed after the Civil War. The author's description of the trial, conviction, and execution of Wirz is extremely sympathetic and provides an alternative view of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Contents: Andersonville: The Prisoners and Their Keeper My First Soldiering A Sprint and a Capture A Prisoner at Belle Isle From Belle Isle to Andersonville "The Dead-Line" and the Death of "Poll Parrot" The Stanton Policy Execution of the Raiders The Mass Meeting of July Twentieth The Fate of a Traitor Billy Bowles Gives a Dinner in Baltimore Henry Wirz: The Man and His Trial The Facts of Wirz's Life The Accusations Against Wirz The Trial The Last Days of Wirz S Life Wirz's Attorney's Final Word The Great War Secretary
Author : James Madison Page
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582181489
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The True Story of Andersonville Prison written by James Madison Page and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Wirz, or Captain Wirz, his rank during Page’s confinement. Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It is his belief that the Federal authorities must share the blame for these things with Confederate authorities, since they were well aware of the inability of the Confederacy to meet the reasonable wants of their prisoners of war, as they lacked supplies for their own needs and since the Federal authorities failed to exercise a humane policy in the exchange of those captured in battle.
Author : James Madison Page
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz written by James Madison Page and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz' by James Madison Page, the author delves into the controversy surrounding the Confederate prison and the trial of Major Henry Wirz. Through meticulous research and detailed analysis, Page presents a compelling argument in defense of Wirz, shedding light on the harsh conditions of Andersonville and the challenges faced by those in charge. The book is written in a straightforward and factual manner, with extensive primary sources cited throughout. This work stands as a valuable contribution to Civil War literature, providing a fresh perspective on a contentious chapter in American history. Readers will appreciate Page's dedication to uncovering the truth behind the events at Andersonville and the unjust treatment of Major Wirz. 'The True Story of Andersonville Prison' is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War and the complexities of wartime prisoner treatment.
Author : Claud Nelson McMillan
Publisher : [United States] : C. McMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of My People and Yours written by Claud Nelson McMillan and published by [United States] : C. McMillan. This book was released on 1956 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Augustus Burney
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548169
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A Southern Soldier's Letters Home written by Samuel Augustus Burney and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed in disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County. He was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. These letters of a college graduate written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd Burney are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War, or the South.
Author : Derek Maxfield
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214882
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Hellmira written by Derek Maxfield and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of the inhumane Union Civil War prison camp that became known as “the Andersonville of the North.” Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed only from the summer of 1864 to July 1865, but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man. Confederate prisoners called it “Hellmira.” Hastily constructed, poorly planned, and overcrowded, prisoner of war camps North and South were dumping grounds for the refuse of war. An unfortunate necessity, both sides regarded the camps as temporary inconveniences—and distractions from the important task of winning the war. There was no need, they believed, to construct expensive shelters or provide better rations. They needed only to sustain life long enough for the war to be won. Victory would deliver prisoners from their conditions. As a result, conditions in the prisoner of war camps amounted to a great humanitarian crisis, the extent of which could hardly be understood even after the blood stopped flowing on the battlefields. In the years after the war, as Reconstruction became increasingly bitter, the North pointed to Camp Sumter—better known as the Andersonville POW camp in Americus, Georgia—as evidence of the cruelty and barbarity of the Confederacy. The South, in turn, cited the camp in Elmira as a place where Union authorities withheld adequate food and shelter and purposefully caused thousands to suffer in the bitter cold. This finger-pointing by both sides would go on for over a century. And as it did, the legend of Hellmira grew. In this book, Derek Maxfield contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed exchange of prisoners, and tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the prison camp in Elmira. In the end, Maxfield suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure. Praise for Hellmira “A unique and informative contribution to the growing library of Civil War histories...Important and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review “A good book, and the author should be congratulated.” —Civil War News
Author : John L. Ransom
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead written by John L. Ransom and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Thom Holdsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Financing an Empire written by John Thom Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John B. Lundstrom
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518721
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book One Drop in a Sea of Blue written by John B. Lundstrom and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota, the state's "hard luck" Civil War regiment, from defying orders and saving a slave family, through bitter defeat and imprisonment, to the ultimate victory and their lives in postwar America.
Author : Jefferson Davis
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Andersonville and Other War-prisons written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
