05117nam 2200685Ia 450 991078017210332120230607213609.01-58729-327-7(CKB)111056486862716(EBL)859275(OCoLC)775873043(SSID)ssj0000219722(PQKBManifestationID)11196425(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219722(PQKBWorkID)10229615(PQKB)11013701(MiAaPQ)EBC859275(OCoLC)50175118(MdBmJHUP)muse9278(Au-PeEL)EBL859275(CaPaEBR)ebr10354448(EXLCZ)9911105648686271620001014d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA perfect picture of hell[electronic resource] eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa /edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. GenowaysIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20011 online resource (356 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-759-X 0-87745-758-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.Machine generated contents note: CAPTURED AT SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862 -- Eyewitness Account -- John H. Stibbs, Company D -- Account of Surrender at Shiloh -- Prison Accounts: Enlisted Men -- Charles L. Sumbardo, Company I -- Incidents of Prison Life -- George Erwin Comstock, Company C -- Reminiscences of S. C. Beck in Prison Life -- Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E -- Reminiscences of a Union Soldier -- Letter: October 24, 1862 -- Letter: November 5, 1862 -- Bryon P. Zuver, Company D -- Prisoner of War -- Prison Accounts: Lieutenants -- Luther W.Jackson, Company H -- A Prison Diary -- John W. Gift, Company F -- Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862 -- Joseph B. Dorr, Company I -- Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion -- Letter:June 11, 1862 -- Letter:July 16, 1862 -- ison Accounts: Officers -- John H. Stibbs, Company D -- An Account of Southern Prisons -- An Open Letter -- Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I -- Incidents of Prison Life in 1862 -- William W. Warner, Company C -- Letter: April 29, 1862 -- Letter: May 23, 1862 -- Letter: May 28, 1862 -- Letter:June 13, 1862 -- Release and Parole -- Erastus B. Soper, Company D -- Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis -- CAPTURED AT CORINTH, OCTOBER 3, 1862 -- Eyewitness Account -- Erastus B. Soper, Company D -- Excerpts from the "History of Company D, 1 2th Iowa" -- Prison Account -- Allen M. Blanchard, Company D -- Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention -- of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War -- CAPTURED AT JACKSON, JULY 11, 1863 -- Prison Account -- George Erwin Comstock, Company C -- A Prison Diary -- CAPTURED AT TUPELO, JULY 13 AND 15, 1864 -- Eyewitness Accounts -- Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain -- The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: -- Letter from an Eye Witness -- William L. Henderson, Company C -- Letter: July 21, 1864 -- Prison Accounts -- Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D -- Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph -- on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: -- Prepared by Himself -- John De Vine, Company I -- An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba -- J. Warren Cotes, Company I -- A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of -- the Men Captured at Tupelo,July 15th, 1864 -- An Open Letter -- Epilogue -- John H. Stibbs -- Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz -- Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index.From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War.Prisoners of warUnited StatesBiographySoldiersIowaBiographyMilitary prisonsConfederate States of AmericaHistorySourcesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Prisoners and prisonsIowaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Personal narrativesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Personal narrativesIowaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesPrisoners of warSoldiersMilitary prisonsHistory973.7/477973.7477973.7710922Genoways Ted1514817Genoways Hugh H150234MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780172103321A perfect picture of hell3858500UNINA