Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware
Subtitle: The Legend of Mistreatment Reexamined
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781476669229
Subjects: Prisoners of war; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisons
Description: "During the Civil War, drawing on contemporaneous prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), the author presents a fresh and detailed study of supposed prisoner mistreatment at Fort Delaware--one of the largest Union prison camps--and draws some surprising conclusions, some of which have implications for the entire Union prison camp system"--