A01=Benton McAdams
Author_Benton McAdams
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Product details
- ISBN 9780875802671
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2000
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Ashley Wilkes of Gone with the Wind helped to seal Rock Island's reputation as the "Andersonville of the North." McAdams separates truth from fiction about the Rock Island Barracks, the prison that held tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. Revealing that Rock Island was not without its problems-ignominious punishments, inadequate facilities, malnutrition, and lack of basic supplies-McAdams shows how Union officers sought to maintain humane conditions in the face of a war that raged on longer than anyone anticipated. Two dozen rare photographs round out the unflinching descriptions of prison life.
