Changing Sides
Subtitle: Union Prisoners of War Who Joined the Confederate Army
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781621906179
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "Garrow's book investigates the experience of imprisoned Union soldiers during the final years of the American Civil War, including their captivity and their repatriation into Confederate ranks. Patrick Garrow's research stems from the archaeological excavation of Florence Prison in 2006 and subsequent archival research in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion and other primary records. Garrow's deeply researched portrait will fill a significant gap in our understanding of Union POWs, since Dee Brown's lengthy work, Galvanized Yankees, dating back to the 1960s, largely focused on Confederate POWs that fought for the Union"--