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A Northern Confederate at Johnson's Island Prison
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: James Parks Caldwell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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A college graduate at 16 and a founder of the Sigma Chi fraternity, Caldwell entered the Confederate Army as an artillery lieutenant. He fought at Shiloh, Port
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: David R. Bush
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-23 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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Johnson's Island, in Sandusky, Ohio, was not the largest Civil War prison in the North, but it was the only one to house Confederate officers almost exclusively
Johnson's Island
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Roger Pickenpaugh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Civil War in the North

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"Decidedly the best location": establishing the prison -- "A prison for officers alone": early days of operation -- "Everything in prison is elated": the road t
The Business of Captivity
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Michael P. Gray
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

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One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Anderson, a
Civil War Prisons
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: William Best Hesseltine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1972 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

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"The articles in this book carefully consider the passionate and partisan documents of the era in order to arrive at a clear, dispassionate understanding of the