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Civil War medical neglect
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conditions in POW camps during Civil War
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Confederate POW
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Gettysburg
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jefferson davis
Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman
military history
Nineteenth century
novel
overcrowded prisons
poor sanitation
POW camps
POW treatment
prisoner exchanges
prisoner memories
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Simon Cameron
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- ISBN 9780817316525
- Weight: 668g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps. Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor. Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in careful detail (Camp Chase) and now turns his attention to the Union record in its entirety, to investigate variations between camps and overall prison policy and to determine as nearly as possible what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He also attempts to determine what conditions resulted from conscious government policy or were the product of local officials and situations.
Roger Pickenpaugh is the author of a dozen works of history, including Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863 and Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy.
