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A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa / edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways.

Other author/creatorGenoways, Ted.
Other author/creatorGenoways, Hugh H.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press,
Descriptionxiv, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Contents Machine generated contents note: CAPTURED AT SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862 -- Eyewitness Account -- John H. Stibbs, Company D -- Account of Surrender at Shiloh -- Prison Accounts: Enlisted Men -- Charles L. Sumbardo, Company I -- Incidents of Prison Life -- George Erwin Comstock, Company C -- Reminiscences of S. C. Beck in Prison Life -- Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E -- Reminiscences of a Union Soldier -- 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 F -- Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862 -- Joseph B. Dorr, Company I -- Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion -- Letter:June 11, 1862 -- Letter:July 16, 1862 -- ison Accounts: Officers -- John H. Stibbs, Company D -- An Account of Southern Prisons -- An Open Letter -- Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I -- Incidents of Prison Life in 1862 -- William W. Warner, Company C -- Letter: April 29, 1862 -- Letter: May 23, 1862 -- Letter: May 28, 1862 -- Letter:June 13, 1862 -- Release and Parole -- Erastus B. Soper, Company D -- Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis -- CAPTURED AT CORINTH, OCTOBER 3, 1862 -- Eyewitness Account -- Erastus B. Soper, Company D -- Excerpts from the "History of Company D, 1 2th Iowa" -- Prison Account -- Allen M. Blanchard, Company D -- Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention -- of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War -- CAPTURED AT JACKSON, JULY 11, 1863 -- Prison Account -- George Erwin Comstock, Company C -- A Prison Diary -- CAPTURED AT TUPELO, JULY 13 AND 15, 1864 -- Eyewitness Accounts -- Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain -- The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: -- Letter from an Eye Witness -- William L. Henderson, Company C -- Letter: July 21, 1864 -- Prison Accounts -- Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D -- Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph -- on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: -- Prepared by Himself -- John De Vine, Company I -- An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba -- J. Warren Cotes, Company I -- A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of -- the Men Captured at Tupelo,July 15th, 1864 -- An Open Letter -- Epilogue -- John H. Stibbs -- Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz -- Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 00050939
ISBN0877457581 (acid-free paper)
ISBN087745759X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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