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Camp Chase and the evolution of Union prison policy / Roger Pickenpaugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pickenpaugh, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners of war--Ohio--History--19th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Camp Chase (Ohio)--History.
- Camp Chase (Ohio).
- Camp Chase (Ohio)--Administration--History.
- Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- Ohio.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Camp Chase was a major Union POW camp and also served at various times as a Union military training facility and as quarters for Union soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Confederacy and released on parole or exchanged. As such, this careful, thorough, and objective examination of the history and administration of the camp will be of true significance in the literature on the Civil War.
- Contents:
- Training camp
- Improvised prison camp
- Parole camp
- Exchange and escape
- The search for stability
- The lives of the prisoners
- The health of the prisoners
- "i think i feel a change"
- Afterword : keeping alive the memory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8035-3
- OCLC:
- 183296792
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