Civil War Prisons & Escapes

Civil War Prisons & Escapes by Robert E. Denney Download PDF EPUB FB2

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War - Kindle edition by Various Artists. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War/5(11).

Early in the Civil War, prisons were adequate to hold the numbers of prisoners. As the war continued and the number of prisoners increased, so did the number of facilities. Some Civil War Prisons & Escapes book were utilized to hold soldiers captured on the battlefield as well as political prisoners suspected of disloyalty.5/5(1).

American Revolutionary War. - Continental Navy officer Joshua Barney escaped from Hill Prison in England. American Civil War.

November - Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary. February 9 - Libby Prison escape. American Civil War Prison Camps were operated by both the Union and the Confederacy to handle thesoldiers captured during the war from to The Record and Pension Office in countedNortherners who were captured.

In most were immediately paroled; after the parole exchange system broke down inaboutwent to prison camps. The most famous Civil War prison is possibly Andersonville in Georgia, but there were other notorious prisons: Camp Douglas in Chicago, Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C., and Libby Prison in Richmond.

This is only a short list of Civil War prisons. Casstevens discusses these and many others. Brooks D. Simpson Arizona State University Civil War Prisons and Escapes: A Day-by-Day Chronicle.

By Robert E. Denney. (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Pp. $) This book's title quite accurately describes its content. Writing for a popular audience, its author tells in chronicle format the story of the Civil War's prisons. A collection of essays by various writers on American Civil War prisons in both the North and South.

Based on diaries and records, the authors describe life in these camps. This is a side of the Civil War often ignored. The major drawback is the smaller sized font used in printing but the book should be in any Civil War collection/5.

Get this from a library. Civil War prisons & escapes: a day-by-day chronicle. [Robert E Denney] -- Chronicles life in the prisons of both sides during the Civil War, included are.

Many Civil War prisoners, Confederate and Federal, came to feel that a quick death from a bullet would have been better than slowly starving in a cold, crowded, filthy prison.

The hope of freedom was sometimes the only thing that kept a prisoner alive and he tried every way possible to :   Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Thomas Rose could see the Union troops approaching from the east. After five days of torturous travel on foot, he was about to make good his escape from Richmond’s infamous Libby Prison.

By earlyeven Confederate officials realized that conditions were ripe for a prisoner revolt, and they began planning to transfer Libby’s inmates to other prisons further south. Before the exodus began, however, one of the most famous prison escapes of the Civil War occurred at Libby Prison.

Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Lonnie R. Speer, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, ()pages, $ Portals to Hell is Author: Historynet Staff. First published in as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic.

Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern prisons during the American Civil War. He attempts to bring closure to the legendary northern myth that the Southern government did its best to "exterminate" Union prisoners by calling the effective Reviews: 1.

Book, Internet Resource: All Authors / Contributors: Early in the Civil War, prisons were adequate to hold the numbers of prisoners. As the war continued and the number of prisoners increased, so did the number of facilities.

name\/a> \" \"Out of the mouth of hell\": Civil War prisons and escapes\/span>\"@ en\/a> ; \u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\n. Prisons and Prisoners of War: An Overview The history of the American Civil War is rife with examples of hardship and pain, but perhaps nowhere were conditions harsher than in the prisoner-of-war camps that dotted the interiors of both the North and South during the final two years of the conflict.

Civil War Prisons edited by William B. Hesseltine published by The Kent State University Press () pages $ Paperback, $ Kindle. This collection of short essays, originally published in the journal Civil War History at the start of the Civil War Centennial, was the standard scholarly work on the subject for more than a quarter.

Civil War prison camps were notoriously filthy and disease-ridden camps, warehouses, forts and prisons that held an estimatedcaptured Civil War soldiers, as well as spies and political prisoners, during the war.

Some of these prisoners included members of John Wilkes Booth’s family, who were held at the Old Capital Prison in Washington D.C. following Abraham Lincoln‘s. Buy a cheap copy of Civil War Prisons book by William Best Hesseltine.

For all the serious scholarship and popular writing devoted to the American Civil War, the topic of prisoner-of-war camps, more than any other, retains the feeling Free shipping over $Cited by: Books: James M. Gillispie, Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners.

Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, Michael P. Gray, The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, William Best Hesseltine, Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology. His first book, The Business of Captivity: Elmira and its Civil War Prison (Kent State University Press, ), was a finalist for the Seaborg Award, and a chapter of that work, first published in Civil War History, earned “Honorable Mention” for the Eastern National Award.

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System currently includes information about two Civil War prisons: Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, once a temporary home to more t Confederate soldiers; and Andersonville prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia.

Part 9: As the years went by, Civil War prison experiences became the fodder for adventure yarns. One volume, Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War, went through a number of s were also seen as likely tourism sites, with Libby Prison being dismantled and moved to Richmond to be opened to paying customers.At first the Confederacy’s prisoners came in a trickle.

The first public mention of them came in June Newspapers in Richmond, Virginia reported that captives were reaching the capital from Manassas Junction, Newport News, and other places where the two .