Topography and weather -- Command structure, personnel and administration -- Prison camp administration and security -- The food ration -- The prison fund -- Shelter and clothing -- Water supply and sanitation -- Outside help -- Medical care -- Death rates: the final arbiter -- Life on Pea Patch Island -- Freedom! -- Conclusions.
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Text of Note
"During the Civil War, drawing on contemporaneous prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), the author presents a fresh and detailed study of supposed prisoner mistreatment at Fort Delaware--one of the largest Union prison camps--and draws some surprising conclusions, some of which have implications for the entire Union prison camp system"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Prisoners of war-- Delaware-- Fort Delaware-- History-- 19th century.
Prisoners of war-- Delaware-- Fort Delaware-- Social conditions-- 19th century.
American Civil War.
History, 19th Century.
Physical Abuse-- history.
Prisoners of War-- history.
Prisoners of War-- psychology.
Social Conditions-- history.
Prisoners of war-- Social conditions.
Prisoners of war.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fort Delaware (Del.)
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners and prisons.