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Author Gillispie, James Massie, 1969-

Title Andersonvilles of the North : the myths and realities of Northern treatment of Civil War Confederate prisoners / James M. Gillispie
Published Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Servants of the devil and Jeff Davis : the Northern version of the POW experiences, 1865-1920 -- The lost cause and the Southern side of the POW debate, 1865-1920 -- Continuity and change : modern writers and the issues of Federal treatment of Confederate prisoners -- Union policies, 1861-1865 -- Federal policies at the four major prisons in Illinois and Indiana -- Federal policies at the major Ohio prisons -- Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, and Elmira -- The omnipresent specter of disease
Summary Argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study presents a less negative, picture of Northern prison life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index
Notes English
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Subject United States. Army -- Prisons -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject Military prisons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Military prisons -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century
Military prisons -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century
Prisoners of war -- Mortality -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- History -- 19th century
Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
Military prisons
Prisoners of war
Prisoners of war -- Mortality
Armed Forces -- Prisons
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Kriegsgefangener
Behandlung
Sezessionskrieg -- Kriegsgefangene.
Kriegsgefangene -- Sezessionskrieg.
Kriegsgefangenenlager -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Militärgefängnis -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140264
Subject Middle West
Northeastern States
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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