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Living by inches : the smells, sounds, tastes, and feeling of captivity in Civil War prisons / Evan A. Kutzler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kutzler, Evan, author.
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Civil War America
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military prisons--United States--History--19th century.
- Military prisons.
- Military prisons--Confederate States of America--History.
- Prisoners of war--Psychology.
- Prisoners of war.
- Senses and sensation.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. 'Living by Inches' examines how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses.
- Contents:
- Dusk : leveling the senses
- Anosmia : the disabled nose
- Bite and be damned!
- Listening through the cacophony
- The thoughts and acts of hungry men.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908559-9-2
- 1-4696-5380-X
- OCLC:
- 1123216930
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