So far from Dixie
Subtitle: Confederates in Yankee prisons
By: Philip Burnham.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Pub.; Distributed by National Book Network
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- History.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Description: "So Far from Dixie is the tale of five men who were sent to New York's infamous POW camp, Elmira, and survived to document their stories. Berry Benson promised that he would escape the prison under honorable circumstances. Anthony Keiley charmed Union authorities in to giving him a job at Elmira and later became mayor of Richmond, Virginia. John King refused to build coffins for his fellow prisoners. Marcus Toney refused to take the Union oath of loyalty until long after the war had ended. And Frank Wilkeson, a Union army volunteer only sixteen years old, endured the same humiliating punishment meted out to the prisoners he was guarding."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.