CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Servants of the Devil and Jeff Davis: The Northern Version of the POW Experience, 1865-1920
Chapter 2:
The Lost Cause and the Southern Side of the POW Debate, 1865-1920
Chapter 3:
Continuity and Change: Modern Writers and the Issue of Federal Treatment of Confederate Prisoners
Chapter 4:
Union Policies, 1861-1865
Chapter 5:
Federal Policies at the Four Major Prisons in Illinois and Indiana
Chapter 6:
Federal Policies at the Major Ohio Prisons
Chapter 7:
Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, and Elmira
Chapter 8:
The Omnipresent Specter of Disease
Conclusion
Appendix A:
Recovery Rates From Disease at the Nine Major Union Prisons and at Chimborazo Hospital
Appendix B:
Leading Killers of Confederate Prisoners of War
Bibliography
Index