So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons

by Philip Burnham

Book Overview

Across the North, 26,000 Rebels died in what was called "Yankee captivity"-six times the number of Confederate dead listed for the battle of Gettysburg, and twice that for the Southern dead of Antietam, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Seven Days, Shiloh, and Second Manassas combined. "If there was ever a hell on earth," one Confederate veteran remembered, "Elmira prison was that hell." New York's POW camp-nicknamed "Helmira"-was the most infamous of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589790162
• ISBN13: 9781589790162
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"