Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

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Captives in Blue Captives in Blue The CivilWar Prisons of the Confederacy Roger Pickenpaugh The UniveRsiTy of AlABAmA PRess Tuscaloosa Copyright © 2013 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved manufactured in the United states of America Typeface: Garamond Cover photographs: Above, Richmond’s Castle Thunder prison, courtesy national Archives, Washington, DC; below, Belle isle, Richmond, virginia, courtesy massachusetts mollUs Collection, United states Army military history institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA Cover design: michele myatt Quinn ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, Ansi Z39.48-1984. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in blue : the Civil War prisons of the Confederacy / Roger Pickenpaugh. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-8173-1783-6 (trade cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-0-8173-8651-1 (ebook) 1. United states—history—Civil War, 1861-1865—Prisoners and prisons. 2. military prisons—Confederate states of America—history. 3. Confederate states of America. Army—Prisons. 4. Prisoners of war—Confederate states of America. 5. Prisoners of war— United states—history—19th century. i. Title. e611.P53 2013 973.7'7—dc23 2012031751 To Patrick harrison Brooks ...