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Johnson's Island : a prison for Confederate officers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pickenpaugh, Roger (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2016]
Series:	Civil War in the North.
Subjects:	Johnson Island Prison. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons. Ohio > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons. Prisoners of war > Ohio > Johnson Island > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

"Decidedly the best location": establishing the prison
"A prison for officers alone": early days of operation
"Everything in prison is elated": the road to exchange
"It requires only proper energy and judgment": the second wave of prisoners
"This horrid life of inactivity": the battle with boredom
"A matter of necessity": prison economics
"A guard for unarmed men": guards and commanders
"Almost a fixed impossibility": escapes and attempts
"The wrath of hunger": rations and Union retaliation
"A pitiful scene": climate and health
"Sad and glad at the same time": the road to release.