In this Book
- A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa
- Book
- 1998
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War.
Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xi-xii
- EDITORS’ NOTE
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Captured at Shiloh
- pp. 17-23
- EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
- pp. 25-28
- PRISON ACCOUNTS: ENLISTED MEN
- pp. 29-41
- George Erwin Comstock, Company C
- pp. 42-45
- Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E
- pp. 46-50
- Letter: November 5, 1862
- pp. 52-54
- Bryon P. Zuver, Company D
- pp. 55-64
- PRISON ACCOUNTS: LIEUTENANTS
- pp. 65-86
- John W. Gift, Company F
- pp. 87-91
- Joseph B. Dorr, Company I
- pp. 92-104
- Letter: June 11, 1862
- pp. 105-106
- Letter: July 16, 1862
- pp. 107-109
- PRISON ACCOUNTS: OFFICERS
- pp. 110-122
- An Open Letter
- pp. 123-125
- Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I
- pp. 126-155
- Letter: May 23, 1862
- p. 157
- Letter: May 28, 1862
- p. 158
- Letter: June 13, 1862
- p. 159
- RELEASE AND PAROLE
- pp. 160-168
- CAPTURED AT CORINTH
- pp. 170-174
- EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
- pp. 175-177
- PRISON ACCOUNT
- pp. 178-187
- CAPTURED AT JACKSON
- pp. 189-194
- PRISON ACCOUNT
- pp. 195-218
- CAPTURED AT TUPELO
- pp. 219-223
- EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
- pp. 225-229
- William L. Henderson, Company C
- pp. 230-232
- PRISON ACCOUNTS
- pp. 233-242
- John De Vine, Company I
- pp. 243-245
- J. Warren Cotes, Company I
- pp. 246-256
- An Open Letter
- pp. 257-258
- John H. Stibbs
- pp. 262-279
- literature cited
- pp. 323-327
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2001