Title: Andersonvilles of the North
First published: 2008
Description: "Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to "whitewash" Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable wartime records and documents from both Northern and Southern sources, then a much different, less negative, picture of Northern prison life emerges. While life in Northern prisons was difficult and potentially deadly, no evidence exists of a conspiracy to neglect or mistreat Southern captives. Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Military prisons, Mortality, Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Prisons, United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States. Army, United states, army, history, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisons, Prisons, united states
Places: Confederate States of America, Middle West, Northeastern States, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E615 .G55 2008