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A study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons

In Captives in Blue, Roger Pickenpaugh examines the ways the Confederate army contended with the growing prison population, the variations in the policies and practices of different Confederate prison camps, the effects these policies and practices had on Union prisoners, and the logistics of prisoner exchanges. He explores conditions that arose from conscious government policy decisions and conditions that were the product of local officials or unique local situations. He also considers how Confederate prisons and policies dealt with African American Union soldiers. Black soldiers held captive in Confederate prisons faced uncertain fates; many former slaves were returned to their former owners, while others faced harsh treatment in the camps. Drawing on prisoner diaries, Pickenpaugh provides compelling first-person accounts of life in prison camps often overlooked by scholars in the field.

This study of Union captives in Confederate prisons is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh’s earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union and extends his examination of Civil War prisoner-of-war facilities into the Confederacy.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. C
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. 1. “We all feel deeply on their account”: Richmond Prisons, 1861
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. 2. “A very inconvenient and expensive problem”: The Search for New Prisons
  2. pp. 15-34
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  1. 3. “Fresh air tastes delicious”: Virginia Prisons and the Road to Exchange, 1862
  2. pp. 35-56
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  1. 4. “This prison in our own country”: Union Parole Camps
  2. pp. 57-73
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  1. 5. “The most villainous thing of the war”: Libby Prison, 1863–64
  2. pp. 74-90
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  1. 6. “It looks like starvation here”: Belle Isle, 1863–64
  2. pp. 91-102
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  1. 7. “500 here died. 600 ran away”: Danville and Beyond, 1864
  2. pp. 103-118
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  1. 8. “I dislike the place”: Andersonville, Plans and Problems
  2. pp. 119-133
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  1. 9. “The Horrors of War”: Andersonville, the Pattern of Life and Death
  2. pp. 134-156
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  1. 10. “All are glad to go somewhere”: The Officers’ Odyssey, 1864–65
  2. pp. 157-174
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  1. 11. “A disagreeable dilemma”: Black Captives in Blue
  2. pp. 175-185
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  1. 12. “Worse than Camp Sumter”: From Andersonville to Florence
  2. pp. 186-199
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  1. 13. “Will not God deliver us from this hell?”: The Downward Spiral
  2. pp. 200-216
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  1. 14. “I am getting ready to feel quite happy”: Exchange and Release
  2. pp. 217-238
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  1. Images
  2. pp. Image 1-Image 10
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 239-284
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 285-294
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 295-303
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