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A Perfect Picture of Hell : Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.

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 1...

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Main Author: Genoways, Ted
Other Authors: Genoways, Hugh H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1998.
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.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781587293276
1587293277
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EDITORS' NOTE; PROLOGUE; EYEWITNESSACCOUNT John H. Stibbs, Company D Account of Surrender at Shiloh; PRISON ACCOUNTS: ENLISTEDMEN Charles l. Sumbardo, Company I Incidents of Prison Life; George Erwin Comstock, Company C Reminiscences of S.C. Beck in Prison Life; Letter: October 24, 1862; Letter: November 5, 1862; Bryon P. Zuver, Company D Prisoner of War; PRISON ACCOUNTS: LIEUTENANTS Luther W. Jackson, Company H A Prison Diary; John W. Gift, Company Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862; Joseph B. Dorr, Company I Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion.

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