Reflections on the Civil WarEdited from tapes that the Pulitzer prize-winnng historian made before his death, this moving, informative book paints an intimate portrait of war. It's a chronicle of motives and emotions, from larger than life figures Lincoln and Lee to young John B. Geyser, a common Union soldier whose drawings enhance these pages. |
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Page 67
... prison camps . Andersonville Prison in Georgia came into existence because of this . In the North there were equally large and almost equally uncomfortable prison camps for Confederate soldiers . I don't think any institution in the ...
... prison camps . Andersonville Prison in Georgia came into existence because of this . In the North there were equally large and almost equally uncomfortable prison camps for Confederate soldiers . I don't think any institution in the ...
Page 68
... prison camps in the Civil War were inhuman . They killed a great many young men , and yet the trouble was not the malevolence of the people who ran the camps at all . With very few exceptions , like perhaps Wirz at Andersonville , the ...
... prison camps in the Civil War were inhuman . They killed a great many young men , and yet the trouble was not the malevolence of the people who ran the camps at all . With very few exceptions , like perhaps Wirz at Andersonville , the ...
Page 69
... Prison . The guards they gave him were home - guard types who simply weren't up to service in the regular Confederate army . Wirz was worse than most , but I think that even he was punished unduly . For the rest , it was not a question ...
... Prison . The guards they gave him were home - guard types who simply weren't up to service in the regular Confederate army . Wirz was worse than most , but I think that even he was punished unduly . For the rest , it was not a question ...
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