Living by Inches
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Andersonville
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Camp Chase
camp life
Camp Sumter Military Prison
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Civil War home front
Civil War hygiene
Civil War in Georgia
Civil War in Illinois
Civil War in Maryland
Civil War in Massachusetts
Civil War in New York
Civil War in North Carolina
Civil War in Ohio
Civil War in Richmond
Civil War in South Carolina
Civil War in Tennessee
Civil War in Virginia
Civil War medical care
Civil War prisons
Civil War soldiers
coffee in the Civil War
death and dying in the Civil War
disease in the Civil War
Elmira
environmental history of the Civil War
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food in the Civil War
Fort Delaware
history of emotions
history of the senses
hunger in the Civil War
Johnson's Island
Libby Prison
lice in the Civil War
mail in the Civil War
military history
Point Lookout
prisoners of war
prisons and prisoners
rumors in the Civil War
Salisbury
sanitation in the Civil War Era
sensory history
sight
smell
social history of night
social history of the Civil War
sound
taste
tobacco in the Civil War
touch
Product details
- ISBN 9781469653785
- Weight: 339g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very lives were in the hands of their enemies. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience--their five senses. From the first whiffs of a prison warehouse to the taste of cornbread and the feeling of lice, captivity assaulted prisoners' perceptions of their environments and themselves. Evan A. Kutzler demonstrates that the sensory experience of imprisonment produced an inner struggle for men who sought to preserve their bodies, their minds, and their sense of self as distinct from the fundamentally uncivilized and filthy environments surrounding them. From the mundane to the horrific, these men survived the daily experiences of captivity by adjusting to their circumstances, even if these transformations worried prisoners about what type of men they were becoming.
Evan A. Kutzler is assistant professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University.
