Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

by Roger Pickenpaugh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081731783X
• ISBN13: 9780817317836
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"