Title: Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Description: "While primarily focusing on the Civil War years, the author looks back to the early 1800s to explain the establishment and function of penitentiaries, discussing how military and civil punishments continuously influenced each other throughout the Civil War era."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: History, Prisoners and prisons, Military prisons, Prisoners of war, Prisons, Prisons, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisons