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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1866).
- United States.
- Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- Soldiers--Iowa--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Military prisons--Confederate States of America--History--Sources.
- Military prisons.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- Iowa--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Iowa.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Iowa--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Epilogue
- John H. Stibbs
- Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz
- Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts
- Notes
- Literature Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-327-7
- OCLC:
- 775873043
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