Title: Crossing the deadlines : Civil War prisons reconsidered /
Authors: Gray, Michael P., 1968-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Prisons United States History; Excavations (Archaeology) United States; Excavations (Archaeology); Prisoners of war; Prisons; United States History Prisoners and prisons.; United States
Abstract: "This book discusses the environmental, societal, and cultural implications related to Civil War prisons and the latest finds at prison excavation sites"--
Contents: Foreword / John T. Hubbell -- Introduction : filtering the currents of Civil War incarceration : a fresh flow in scholarship / Michael P. Gray -- Part I. New encounters : sensing nature, society, and culture in and out of prison. Nature and prisons : toward an environmental history of captivity / Evan A. Kutzler -- Civil War captives and a captivated home front : the rise of prisons as dark tourist destinations / Michael P. Gray -- Catholics in captivity : priests, prisoners, and the living faith in Civil War military prisons / Angela M. Zombek -- Part II. Revelations in retaliation, race, and the repressed. "The sternest feature of war" : prisoners of war and the practice of retaliation / Lorien Foote -- Loathsome diseases and principles : conceptualizing race and slavery in Civil War prisons / Christopher Barr -- "De bottom rails on top now" : black Union guards and Confederate prisoners of war / Kelly D. Mezurek -- Part III. Unearthing material culture, resurrections, and reconciliations. Johnson's Island prison uncovered : an archaeological exploration of a northern Civil War prison / David R. Bush -- Lost and found on the southern side : the resurrection of Camp Lawton / John K. Derden -- Civil War prisons, memory, and the problem of reconciliation / Benjamin G. Cloyd.