Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
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Servants of the devil and Jeff Davis : the Northern version of the POW experiences, 1865-1920 -- The lost cause and the Southern side of the POW debate, 1865-1920 -- Continuity and change : modern writers and the issues of Federal treatment of Confederate prisoners -- Union policies, 1861-1865 -- Federal policies at the four major prisons in Illinois and Indiana -- Federal policies at the major Ohio prisons -- Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, and Elmira -- The omnipresent specter of disease.
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Argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study presents a less negative, picture of Northern prison life.
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Title
Andersonvilles of the North.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.-- Prisons-- History-- 19th century.
United States.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Military prisons-- Middle West-- History-- 19th century.
Military prisons-- Northeastern States-- History-- 19th century.
Military prisons-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Prisoners of war-- Confederate States of America-- History-- 19th century.
Prisoners of war-- Mortality-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Prisoners of war-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Armed Forces-- Prisons.
Behandlung
HISTORY.
Kriegsgefangene-- Sezessionskrieg.
Kriegsgefangenenlager-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Kriegsgefangener
Militärgefängnis-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Military prisons.
Prisoners of war-- Mortality.
Prisoners of war.
Sezessionskrieg
Sezessionskrieg-- Kriegsgefangene.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners and prisons.