Andersonvilles Of The North
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Author | : James Massie Gillispie |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1574412558 |
This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.
Author | : Derek Maxfield |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611214882 |
An in-depth history of the inhumane Union Civil War prison camp that became known as “the Andersonville of the North.” Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed only from the summer of 1864 to July 1865, but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man. Confederate prisoners called it “Hellmira.” Hastily constructed, poorly planned, and overcrowded, prisoner of war camps North and South were dumping grounds for the refuse of war. An unfortunate necessity, both sides regarded the camps as temporary inconveniences—and distractions from the important task of winning the war. There was no need, they believed, to construct expensive shelters or provide better rations. They needed only to sustain life long enough for the war to be won. Victory would deliver prisoners from their conditions. As a result, conditions in the prisoner of war camps amounted to a great humanitarian crisis, the extent of which could hardly be understood even after the blood stopped flowing on the battlefields. In the years after the war, as Reconstruction became increasingly bitter, the North pointed to Camp Sumter—better known as the Andersonville POW camp in Americus, Georgia—as evidence of the cruelty and barbarity of the Confederacy. The South, in turn, cited the camp in Elmira as a place where Union authorities withheld adequate food and shelter and purposefully caused thousands to suffer in the bitter cold. This finger-pointing by both sides would go on for over a century. And as it did, the legend of Hellmira grew. In this book, Derek Maxfield contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed exchange of prisoners, and tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the prison camp in Elmira. In the end, Maxfield suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure. Praise for Hellmira “A unique and informative contribution to the growing library of Civil War histories...Important and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review “A good book, and the author should be congratulated.” —Civil War News
Author | : William Marvel |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807821527 |
In this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive history of Andersonville Prison and conditions within it.
Author | : John L. Ransom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Andersonville Prison |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Madison Page |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Looks at Andersonville Prison's commandant during the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Major Henry Wirz, who was arrested and later found guilty on war crimes charges for allowing inhumane conditions and treatment of prisoners of war at the prison.
Author | : Lorien Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Escaped prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9781469630557 |
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Author | : William Marvel |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807857816 |
In this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive history of Andersonville Prison and conditions within it.
Author | : Herbert Winslow Collingwood |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780817310615 |
Within the walls of the infamous Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp, a Confederate guard and his Northern captive find their fates intertwined When John Rockwell, a Yankee captive at Andersonville, reaches across the prison's "dead line" to pluck a bunch of violets, Confederate guard Jack Foster is supposed to shoot him. Conflicted over thoughts of Lucy Moore, his girl back home, Foster lowers his gun. Spared, Rockwell lives to escape Andersonville, and Foster is discharged in disgrace. After the war, the paths of the two men are predictably divergent. Foster, as a symbol of the Confederacy, is a burned-out, bitter shell. Rockwell, as an emblem of the North, is thrifty and eager to make something of himself. When Rockwell's ambitions lead him to take charge of a rundown plantation in Foster's native Mississippi, the prisoner and guard find their paths crossing once again. The struggle of these men represents the post-war chasm between North and South and raises issues of forgiveness and renewal.
Author | : Henry Wirz |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781017440324 |
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Author | : John L. Ransom |
Publisher | : Berkley |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Andersonville (Ga.) |
ISBN | : 9780425141465 |
John Ransom was a 20-year-old Union soldier when he became a prisoner of war in 1863. In his unforgettable diary, Ransom reveals the true story of his day-to-day struggle in the worst of Confederate prison camps--where hundreds of prisoners died daily. Ransom's story of survival is, according to Publishers Weekly, a great adventure . . . observant, eloquent, and moving.