Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory

by Benjamin G. Cloyd

Book Overview

During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, and both the Lincoln and Davis administrations manipulated the prison controversy to serve the exigencies of war. As both sides distributed propaganda designed to convince citizens of the relative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807164003
• ISBN13: 9780807164006
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"