Captives in Gray

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  • Captives in Gray Book Detail

  • Author : Roger Pickenpaugh
  • Release Date : 2009-05-24
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 302
  • ISBN 13 : 0817316523
  • File Size : 97,97 MB

Captives in Gray by Roger Pickenpaugh PDF Summary

Book Description: Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor. Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in careful detail (Camp Chase) and now turns his attention to the Union record in its entirety, to investigate variations between camps and overall prison policy and to determine as nearly as possible what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He also attempts to determine what conditions resulted from conscious government policy or were the product of local officials and situations. A companion to Pickenpaugh's Captives in Blue.

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