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Author : Jacob Osborn Coburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hell on Belle Isle written by Jacob Osborn Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald L. Allison
Publisher : Faded Banner Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW Revised Edition written by Donald L. Allison and published by Faded Banner Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The soul of a brave and courageous man who only wanted to serve his country and return home to his fiancee is forever illuminated." That's how one reviewer described the poignant story of an intelligent and perceptive Union soldier who endured the horrors of the Civil War prison on Belle Isle in Richmond, as detailed by award-winning author and journalist Don Allison. "It is three months since I was captured," Union cavalryman J. Osborn Coburn wrote from Richmond's Belle Isle prison in January 1863. "Then I expected that all enlisted men would be paroled and exchanged and returned to our lines. We were full of health, heart, hope and spirits. We were fleshy, having known but little of hunger. We were confident in our ability to endure almost anything. Now we are down, clear down, starved out. Our flesh as well as hope and spirits are all broken or nearly so. We get peevish and irritable, cross, dirty and careless. Eat like beasts, our faces and hands begrimed with dirt and pine smoke and but little inclination to wash them or strength if we had." Coburn's diary is perhaps the closest a reader can come to experiencing the horrors of Civil War prison life. His journal is the focus of a revised edition of a classic book from Faded Banner Publications, "Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW Revised Edition." An uncommonlygifted writer, Coburn was an attorney before joining the Sixth Michigan Cavalry in the summer of 1862. He turned his pen to describing life as cavalryman in George Armstrong Custer's famed Michigan Cavalry Brigade, and later as a POW in Richmond in late 1863 and early 1864. Editing and narrating "Hell on Belle Isle" is newspaper editor Don Allison, whose two decades of journalistic work have attracted honors from both the UPI and AP wire services. In preparing "Hell on Belle Isle" Allison has drawn on a lifelong interest and study of the Civil War. His ancestors fought on both sides during the conflict. Belle Isle is not as well known as the infamous Andersonville prison in Georgia, but Belle Isle rivaled Andersonville in terms of the squalid conditions of neglect and starvation endured by its prisoners. It was actually a fluke that Allison learned Coburn's journal existed. A friend working with him on a history of the 38th Ohio Infantry copied a 38th Ohio reference from a newspaper microfilm, and by chance a brief story about the diary appeared on the photocopy. As Allison explains,"I was able to obtain a transcription - the original diary was lost in a house fire about 25 years ago - and I knew Coburn's story needed to be told. I was definitely certain I had to do the book after finding Coburn's photograph in a Michigan antique shop, a store I stopped at on an unexplained whim." Life on Bell Isle was a terrible hardship. Leaky, worn-out tents were provided for the men, but overcrowding often left men with no shelter at all. Rain and cold brought terrible suffering, as did illness, homesickness and an almost continual hunger. "A little rain and very raw cold day," Coburn wrote in November 1863. "No wood and nothing for supper but the usual two ounces of meat. It does almost seem as if this infernal Confederate government desires the reduction of our numbers and was accomplishing it in this slow and barbarous manner of murdering us. I know they are hard pressed by our armies on all sides and their means cut very close, but they might certainly furnish us with wood to warm us and our rations..." On Feb. 4, as he neared the end of his ordeal, Coburn wrote that "Hereafter I shall not try to keep a daily record of events as this book is nearly full and I don't know how to keep another. Suffice it to say here that general prospects of our release do not increase except as time passing brings us nearer to an end _ perhaps our own in time."
Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293427
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Portals to Hell written by Lonnie R. Speer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.
Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877457596
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book A Perfect Picture Of Hell written by Ted Genoways and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision
Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731783X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Captives in Blue written by Roger Pickenpaugh and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captives in Blue, a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh's earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities. In June of 1861, only a few weeks after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each side continue to vilify the other for POW maltreatment. Roger Pickenpaugh's two studies of Civil War prisoners of war facilities complement one another and offer a thoughtful exploration of issues that captives taken from both sides of the Civil War faced. In Captives in Blue, Pickenpaugh tackles issues such as the ways the Confederate Army contended with the growing prison population, the variations in the policies and practices inthe different Confederate prison camps, the effects these policies and practices had on Union prisoners, and the logistics of prisoner exchanges. Digging further into prison policy and practices, Pickenpaugh explores conditions that arose from conscious government policy decisions and conditions that were the product of local officials or unique local situations. One issue unique to Captives in Blue is the way Confederate prisons and policies dealt with African American Union soldiers. Black soldiers held captive in Confederate prisons faced uncertain fates; many former slaves were returned to their former owners, while others were tortured in the camps. Drawing on prisoner diaries, Pickenpaugh provides compelling first-person accounts of life in prison camps often overlooked by scholars in the field.
Author : Gary Morgan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768910
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Andersonville Raiders written by Gary Morgan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the most witnessed execution in US history. 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 by hanging. The six, part of a larger group known as the Raiders, were killed, not by their Rebel enemies but by their fellow prisoners, for the crimes of robbing and assaulting their own comrades. Who were these six men? Were they really guilty of the crimes they were accused of? Were they really, as some prisoners alleged, murderers? What role did their Confederate captors play in their trial and execution? What brought about their downfall? Relying on military records, diaries, memoirs written within five years of the prison closing, and the recently discovered trial transcript, author Gary Morgan has discovered a version of events that is markedly different from the version told in later day “memoirs” and repeated in the history books. Here, for the first time in a century and a half, is the real story of the Andersonville Raiders.
Author : Ovid L. Futch
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059402
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book History of Andersonville Prison written by Ovid L. Futch and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2011-03-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1864, five hundred Union prisoners of war arrived at the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Andersonville, as it was later known, would become legendary for its brutality and mistreatment, with the highest mortality rate--over 30 percent--of any Civil War prison. Fourteen months later, 32,000 men were imprisoned there. Most of the prisoners suffered greatly because of poor organization, meager supplies, the Federal government’s refusal to exchange prisoners, and the cruelty of men supporting a government engaged in a losing battle for survival. Who was responsible for allowing so much squalor, mismanagement, and waste at Andersonville? Looking for an answer, Ovid Futch cuts through charges and countercharges that have made the camp a subject of bitter controversy. He examines diaries and firsthand accounts of prisoners, guards, and officers, and both Confederate and Federal government records (including the transcript of the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz, the alleged "fiend of Andersonville"). First published in 1968, this groundbreaking volume has never gone out of print.
Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587293277
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book A Perfect Picture of Hell written by Ted Genoways and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision
Author : Benjamin G. Cloyd
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807146293
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Haunted by Atrocity written by Benjamin G. Cloyd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of each section of the relative virtue of their own prison system -- in contrast to the cruel inhumanity of the opponent -- they etched hardened and divisive memories of the prison controversy into the American psyche, memories that would prove difficult to uproot. In Haunted by Atrocity, Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. Throughout Reconstruction and well into the twentieth century, Cloyd shows, competing sectional memories of the prisons prolonged the process of national reconciliation. Events such as the trial and execution of CSA Captain Henry Wirz -- commander of the notorious Andersonville prison -- along with political campaigns, the publication of prison memoirs, and even the construction of monuments to the prison dead all revived the painful accusations of deliberate cruelty. As northerners, white southerners, and African Americans contested the meaning of the war, these divisive memories tore at the scars of the conflict and ensured that the subject of Civil War prisons remained controversial. By the 1920s, the death of the Civil War generation removed much of the emotional connection to the war, and the devastation of the first two world wars provided new contexts in which to reassess the meaning of atrocity. As a result, Cloyd explains, a more objective opinion of Civil War prisons emerged -- one that condemned both the Union and the Confederacy for their callous handling of captives while it deemed the mistreatment of prisoners an inevitable consequence of modern war. But, Cloyd argues, these seductive arguments also deflected a closer examination of the precise responsibility for the tragedy of Civil War prisons and allowed Americans to believe in a comforting but ahistorical memory of the controversy. Both the recasting of the town of Andersonville as a Civil War village in the 1970s and the 1998 opening of the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site reveal the continued American preference for myth over history -- a preference, Cloyd asserts, that inhibits a candid assessment of the evils committed during the Civil War. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, a deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.
Author : John Cohassey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671664
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga written by John Cohassey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called upon to take a hill at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, the untested 22nd Michigan Infantry helped to save General George H. Thomas' right flank. Formed in 1862, the regiment witnessed slavery and encountered runaways in the border state of Kentucky, faced near starvation during the siege of Chattanooga and marched to Atlanta as General Thomas' provost guard. This history explores the 22nd's day-to-day experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The author describes the challenges faced by volunteer farm boys, shopkeepers, school teachers and lawyers as they faced death, disease and starvation on battlefields and in Confederate prisons.
Author : Scott Martelle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613730187
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Madman and the Assassin written by Scott Martelle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity who became the object of fascination and of derision. Corbett was an English immigrant, a hatter by trade, who was likely poisoned by mercury. A devout Christian, he castrated himself so that his sexual urges would not distract him from serving God, which he did as a street evangelist and preacher. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army in the first days of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Eventually released in a prisoner exchange, he would end up in the squadron that cornered Booth in Virginia. The Madman and the Assassin is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man who was something of a prototypical modern American, thrust into the spotlight during a national news event. His story also encompasses tragedy—his wife died when he was young, and he struggled with poverty and his own mental health—as it weaves through some of the biggest events in nineteenth century America. Scott Martelle is a professional journalist and the author of The Admiral and the Ambassador, and Detroit: A Biography, and is an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times.
Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216170
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Lancelot written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIV“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —The New York Times Book Review/divDIV/divDIVFed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife—an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness, he will try once and for all to purify the world or destroy it in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVMesmerizing and unforgettable, Lancelot is a masterful story of one man’s collision with the follies of modern culture, and a thought-provoking look at the nature of good and evil./div /div
Author : Randall L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611390273
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Hell's Belle written by Randall L. Rasmussen and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell’s Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American flyers were sent to the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17B. In Stalag the American prisoners of war had to deal with the harsh rules imposed by the German Commandant as well as deplorable living conditions: filth, bitter cold, starvation and disease. Told through the eyes of one young flyer, the book has non-stop action, emotion and humor, and captures the upbeat and undefeatable spirit of America’s finest young men who served the United States during WWII. RANDALL L. RASMUSSEN, M.D. used his father’s memoirs, “From a B-17 to Stalag 17B,” as the basis for this book. Dr. Rasmussen also explored William Rasmussen’s notes, the verbal history that he recorded at the local library, research material, and recollections of the narratives he heard his father tell so many times over the years. William Rasmussen was a popular guest speaker at press clubs, library clubs and service organizations in Michigan’s lower peninsula near his home. His narratives were enjoyed immensely since he had a special gift of being able to captivate audiences as they shared his experiences flying over Nazi Germany and being a prisoner of war.
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Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Blue & Gray Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carla Denise Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984585150
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book It Had to Be You written by Carla Denise Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My journey has taken me to a great many places. Some of them good, & some not so good. I am the one who is carrying the torch for all those who are urban & romantic at the same time. So, come on. This expedition is not going to take that long! But I'd like to say thank you to all of the people at Dutch Girl DoNuts. They have always been there for me. Making sure that I've got donuts, milk and conversation. So thank you for all your help and support. They're on 7 Mile and Woodward. Check them out. They're on point! I also want to thank Chase Library Branch. Kalana, Faren, Jermaine & any others there that I've forgotten. You're much appreciated. Nicole Anita. I say that sometimes. Because I know that she hates her Anita's. But her personality is not in her Anita's. She may not be friendly to you. But that's because you have not taken the time to get to know her. Thanks to all mentioned.
Author : Larry A. Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 143571251X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Civil War P.O.W. written by Larry A. Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography, journal and letters of a frontier lawyer who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, was captured, and died in Andersonville Prison, Georgia
Author : Mary Lee Demarest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Ain Countree and Other Verses written by Mary Lee Demarest and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
