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A PERFECT PICTURE OF HELL EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS BY CIVIL WAR PRISONERS FROM THE 12TH IOWA EDITED BY TED GENOWAYS AND HUGH H. GENOWAYS University of Iowa Press Iowa City Iowa Logo University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 䉷 2001 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America http://www.uiowa.edu/⬃uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. The publication of this book was generously supported by the University of Iowa Foundation. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A perfect picture of hell: eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa / edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn 0-87745-758-1 (cloth), isbn 0-87745-759-x (pbk.) 1. United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861–1866). 2. United States— History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Prisoners and prisons. 3. Iowa—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Personal narratives. 4. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865— Personal narratives. 5. Iowa—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Regimental histories. 6. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Regimental histories. 7. Prisoners of war—United States—Biography. 8. Soldiers—Iowa—Biography. 9. Military prisons—Confederate States of America—History—Sources. I. Genoways, Ted. II. Genoways, Hugh H. e507.5 12th.p47 2001 973.7⬘477—dc21 00-050939 01 02 03 04 05 c 5 4 3 2 1 01 02 03 04 05 p 5 4 3 2 1 Maps of Shiloh and Corinth battlefields 䉷 1903, B. F. Gue, History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, vol. 2, The Civil War (New York: Century History). Map of Tupelo battlefield 䉷 1903, D. W. Reed, Campaign and Battles of the Twelfth Regiment Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry from Organization, September 1861, to Muster Out, January 20, 1866 (privately published). Before midnight the last of the prisoners left the stockade never to return, and as they went they burned everything within the dead-line that they could not carry along. While marching toward the station, as they looked back and saw the thick black smoke roll up from within the stockade, lit up by the red flames of the burning pitch pine beneath, it was said by many that it made a perfect picture of hell. sergeant j. warren cotes on the burning of Andersonville ...

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