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Foote Lorien <1969-> |
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Titolo |
The Yankee Plague : Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy / / Lorien Foote |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2016] |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©[2016] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prisoners of war - United States - History - 19th century |
Escaped prisoners of war - United States - History - 19th century |
South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: the plague -- Escape -- The world in black and white: the collapse of slavery -- They cover the land like the locusts of Egypt: the collapse of the state -- Guardian angels: the collapse of the home front -- God's country: the collapse of borders -- A futile attempt at imprisonment: the collapse of military defense -- Epilogue: terrible times in the past. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into upstate South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of the local enslaved population, creating, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague." In this fascinating look at Union soliders' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America"-- |
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