Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners

by James M. Gillispie

University of North Texas Press, 2008

Cloth: 978-1-57441-255-0 | Paper: 978-1-57441-311-3 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-370-0

Library of Congress Classification E615.G55 2008

Dewey Decimal Classification 973.771

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

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