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Haunted by atrocity : Civil War prisons in American memory /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cloyd, Benjamin G., 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
Military prisons > United States > History > 19th century.
Military prisons > Confederate States of America > History.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century.
Prisoners of war > Confederate States of America.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Atrocities.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Our souls are filled with unutterable anguish" atrocity and the origins of divisive memory, 1861-1865
  • "Remember Andersonville" recrimination during Reconstruction, 1865-1877
  • "This nation cannot afford to forget" contesting the memory of suffering, 1877-1898
  • "We are the living witnesses" the limitations of reconciliation, 1898-1914
  • "A more proper perspective" objectivity in the shadow of twentieth-century war, 1914-1960
  • "Better to take advantage of outsiders' curiosity" the consumption of objective memory, 1960-present
  • "The task of history is never done" Andersonville National Historic Site, the national POW museum, and the triumph of patriotic memory.