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A Fate Worse than Hell American Prisoners of the Civil War | 46.85 MB
Title: A Fate Worse than Hell
Author: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Military, 19th Century
Language: English | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0393541096
Description:
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War's prisoner of war camps, North and South.
It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war's death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imprisoned. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. Against the backdrop of a brutal internecine conflict, the Civil War's prison camps were a harrowing milestone in the history of mass dehumanization.
A Fate Worse Than Hell contemplates the roots and consequences of this mass incarceration from America's bloodiest conflict. Based on first-person prisoner accounts, photographs, and contemporaneous journalism, historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage shows how POW camps were of far greater significance to the war than is...
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