Civil War hostages
Subtitle: hostage taking in the Civil War
By: by Webb Garrison.
Publisher: White Mane Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Hostages -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Reprisals -- History -- 19th century.; Political kidnapping -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Description: "Soldiers and civilians alike were targets of hostage takers; even females were not safe when a commander thought he could use hostages to force concessions from the enemy. Ordinary citizens occasionally took men in uniform as hostages, and guerilla units on both sides captured enemy civilians whose names they didn't bother to record."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PAR I PIRACY IN NORTH AMERICAN WATERS; title: i Three Deadly Lotteries-Ligon's Tobacco Warehouse,; title: November 10-11, 18613; title: 2 "Easy Money"-The Confederate Privateersmen11; title: 3 Somehow, Hostages Made It20; title: 4 Zarvona-7 for 129; title: 5 Pirates plus Hostages, 186338; title: PART II CIVILIANS-USUALLY SITTING DUCKS45; title: 6 Big Nets and Banner Hauls47; title: 7 The Champion-Fredericksburg54; title: 8 John Brown Uses Lewis Washington61; title: 9 Phoebe Munden and Elizabeth Weeks69; title: 10 Irrepressible William P. Rucker79; title: 11 "Minor Incidents" Abounded86; title: 12 Indomitable Samuel Price95; title: 13 Vague Threats, Grim Warnings104; title: 14 Hole-in-the-Day and Fellow Tribesmen113; title: PART III PRISONS AND PRISONERS 123; title: 15 Hostages and Counterparts in Southern Prisons125; title: 16 Northern Prisons for Hostages and Equivalents 136; title: PART IV SELECTED FOR SPECIAL RISKS149; title: 17 Charleston, 1864-50/5151; title: 18 Searchers for "Infernal Devices"160; title: 19 Transportation and Communication 170; title: 20 One Clipping, Six Hundred Hostages!176; title: PART V REGULARS ANDIRREGULARS185; title: 21 Morgan, Streight, and Other Hostages in Uniform187; title: 22 Fresh and Saltwater Cases194; title: 23 Ragged Ratios203; title: 24 Trouble in Loudoun County212; title: 25 Approval at the Top218; title: 26 "Little Blood-suckers" Saved Farragut227; title: 27 William H. F. ("Rooney") Lee and Company 234; title: PART VI PROMINENT MEN WERE DEEPLY INVOLVED243; title: 28 Former Minister to France245; title: 29 Both Presidents Were Targeted254; title: 30 A Cadaver as a Hostage262; title: Bibliography272; title: Index276.