Yankee Plague
Subtitle: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781469630557
Subjects: United states, army, officers; Prisoners of war; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisons; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Description: "During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into upstate South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of the local enslaved population, creating, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague." In this fascinating look at Union soliders' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America"--