Download e-book for iPad: Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union by Roger Pickenpaugh

By Roger Pickenpaugh

Perhaps no subject is extra heated, and the assets extra tendentious, than that of Civil battle prisons and the therapy of prisoners of conflict (POWs). Partisans of every aspect, then and now, have vilified the opposite for maltreatment in their POWs, whereas trying to excuse their very own distressing list of prisoner of warfare camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. it is just lately that historians have grew to become their awareness to this contentious subject in an try and type the wheat of fact from the chaff of partisan rancor.

Roger Pickenpaugh has formerly studied a Union felony camp in cautious aspect (Camp Chase) and now turns his recognition to the Union checklist in its entirety, to enquire adaptations among camps and total felony coverage and to figure out as approximately as attainable what truly occurred within the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He additionally makes an attempt to figure out what stipulations resulted from awake executive coverage or have been the made from neighborhood officers and situations.

A better half to Pickenpaugh's Captives in Blue.

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