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2) Luther B. Harris: a prison story : a Vermont soldier's memoir of Andersonville and other rebel camps
Author
Publisher
Vermont Civil War Enterprises and Lyndon Historical Society
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier's Book opens as Ira Cahill Stevens, a young Union soldier, is on his way to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Day by day, Ira shares the horrific details of a world that is growing ever more barbaric and absurd, with...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other...
Author
Publisher
Boys Read Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Two brothers from Kentucky get captured by the Rebel army, and soon find they are fighting for survival in Andersonville Confederate Prison. They also search for their missing father, whom they believe is somewhere within the confines of the prison walls.
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