A perfect picture of hell
Subtitle: eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa
By: edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways.
Contributors: Genoways, Ted.; Genoways, Hugh H.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1866); Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.; Soldiers -- Iowa -- Biography.; Military prisons -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.; Iowa -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; Iowa -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
Genres: Biography.; Sources.; Personal narratives.
Description: "From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War.".

"Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision of life in Civil War prisons as palpable and immediate as they are historically valuable.

Captured four times during the course of the war, the 12th Iowa created narratives that reveal a picture of the changing southern prison system as the Confederacy grew ever weaker and illustrate the growing animosity many southerners felt for the Union soldiers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CAPTURED AT SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862; title: Eyewitness Account; title: John H. Stibbs, Company D; title: Account of Surrender at Shiloh; title: Prison Accounts: Enlisted Men; title: Charles L. Sumbardo, Company I; title: Incidents of Prison Life; title: George Erwin Comstock, Company C; title: Reminiscences of S. C. Beck in Prison Life; title: Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E; title: Reminiscences of a Union Soldier; title: Letter: October 24, 1862; title: Letter: November 5, 1862; title: Bryon P. Zuver, Company D; title: Prisoner of War; title: Prison Accounts: Lieutenants; title: Luther W.Jackson, Company H; title: A Prison Diary; title: John W. Gift, Company F; title: Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862; title: Joseph B. Dorr, Company I; title: Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion; title: Letter:June 11, 1862; title: Letter:July 16, 1862; title: ison Accounts: Officers; title: John H. Stibbs, Company D; title: An Account of Southern Prisons; title: An Open Letter; title: Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I; title: Incidents of Prison Life in 1862; title: William W. Warner, Company C; title: Letter: April 29, 1862; title: Letter: May 23, 1862; title: Letter: May 28, 1862; title: Letter:June 13, 1862; title: Release and Parole; title: Erastus B. Soper, Company D; title: Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis; title: CAPTURED AT CORINTH, OCTOBER 3, 1862; title: Eyewitness Account; title: Erastus B. Soper, Company D; title: Excerpts from the "History of Company D, 1 2th Iowa"; title: Prison Account; title: Allen M. Blanchard, Company D; title: Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention; title: of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War; title: CAPTURED AT JACKSON, JULY 11, 1863; title: Prison Account; title: George Erwin Comstock, Company C; title: A Prison Diary; title: CAPTURED AT TUPELO, JULY 13 AND 15, 1864; title: Eyewitness Accounts; title: Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain; title: The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo:; title: Letter from an Eye Witness; title: William L. Henderson, Company C; title: Letter: July 21, 1864; title: Prison Accounts; title: Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D; title: Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph; title: on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons:; title: Prepared by Himself; title: John De Vine, Company I; title: An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba; title: J. Warren Cotes, Company I; title: A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of; title: the Men Captured at Tupelo,July 15th, 1864; title: An Open Letter; title: Epilogue; title: John H. Stibbs; title: Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz; title: Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts; title: Notes; title: Literature Cited; title: Index.