A Perfect Picture of Hell : Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.
Title:
A Perfect Picture of Hell : Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.
Author:
Genoways, Ted.
ISBN:
9781587293276
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (356 pages)
Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORS' NOTE -- PROLOGUE -- EYEWITNESSACCOUNT John H. Stibbs, Company D Account of Surrender at Shiloh -- PRISON ACCOUNTS: ENLISTEDMEN Charles l. Sumbardo, Company I Incidents of Prison Life -- George Erwin Comstock, Company C Reminiscences of S. C. Beck in Prison Life -- Letter: October 24, 1862 -- Letter: November 5, 1862 -- Bryon P. Zuver, Company D Prisoner of War -- PRISON ACCOUNTS: LIEUTENANTS Luther W. Jackson, Company H A Prison Diary -- John W. Gift, Company Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862 -- Joseph B. Dorr, Company I Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion -- Letter: June 11, 1862 -- Letter: July 16, 1862 -- PRISON ACCOUNTS: OFFICERS John H. Stibbs, Company D An Account of Southern Prisons -- An Open Letter -- Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I Incidents of Prison Life in 1862 -- William W. Warner, Company C -- Letter: May 23, 1862 -- Letter: May 28, 1862 -- Letter: June 13, 1862 -- RELEASE AND PAROLE Erastus B. Soper, Company D Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis -- EYEWITNESSACCOUNT Erastus B. Soper, Company D Excerpts from the ''History of Company D, 12th Iowa'' -- PRISON ACCOUNT Allen M. Blanchard, Company D Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War -- PRISON ACCOUNT George Erwin Comstock, Company C A Prison Diary -- EYEWITNESSACCOUNTS Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: Letter from an Eye Witness -- William l. Henderson, Company C Letter: July 21, 1864 -- PRISON ACCOUNTS Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: Prepared by Himself -- John De Vine, Company I An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba.
J. Warren Cotes, Company I A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of the Men Captured at Tupelo, July 15th, 1864 -- An Open Letter -- EPILOGUE -- John H. Stibbs Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz -- Biographies of individuals mentioned in the accounts -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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