03485nam 2200613Ia 450 991078832420332120230803032518.00-8173-8651-3(CKB)3170000000060489(EBL)1132735(SSID)ssj0000860054(PQKBManifestationID)11450720(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860054(PQKBWorkID)10883481(PQKB)11735096(MiAaPQ)EBC1132735(OCoLC)859687453(MdBmJHUP)muse19101(Au-PeEL)EBL1132735(CaPaEBR)ebr10687030(OCoLC)840897773(EXLCZ)99317000000006048920120820d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaptives in blue[electronic resource] the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy /Roger PickenpaughTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20131 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1783-X Includes bibliographical references and index."We all feel deeply on their account" : Richmond prisons, 1861 -- "A very inconvenient and expensive problem" : the search for new prisons -- "Fresh air tastes delicious" : Virginia prisons and the road to exchange, 1862 -- "This prison in our own country" : Union parole camps -- "The most villainous thing of the war" : Libby Prison, 1863-64 -- "It looks like starvation here" : Belle Isle, 1863-64 -- "500 here died. 600 ran away" : Danville and beyond, 1864 -- "I dislike the place" : Andersonville, plans and problems -- "The horrors of war" : Andersonville, the pattern of life and death -- "All are glad to go somewhere" : the officers' odyssey, 1864-65 -- "A disagreeable dilemma" : Black captives in blue -- "Worse than Camp Sumter" : from Andersonville to Florence -- "Will not God deliver us from this hell?" : the downward spiral -- "I am getting ready to feel quite happy" : exchange and release.Captives in Blue, a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh's earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities. In June of 1861, only a few weeks after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each sideMilitary prisonsConfederate States of AmericaHistoryPrisoners of warConfederate States of AmericaPrisoners of warUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Prisoners and prisonsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Prisoners and prisonsMilitary prisonsHistory.Prisoners of warPrisoners of warHistoryUnited StatesHistoryPrisoners and prisons.973.7/7Pickenpaugh Roger1486555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788324203321Captives in blue3747552UNINA