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008 931014t19941994ncuab b s001 0 eng
010 $a 93040101
020 $a0807821527 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)29255361
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035 $a(NNC)1519898
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050 00 $aE612.A5$bM44 1994
082 00 $a973.7/71$220
100 1 $aMarvel, William.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85235498
245 10 $aAndersonville :$bthe last depot /$cWilliam Marvel.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9412
300 $axi, 337 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCivil War America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-321) and index.
520 $aBetween February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 - one-third of them - died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials.
520 8 $aIn this carefully researched and compelling revisionist account, William Marvel provides a comprehensive history of Andersonville Prison and conditions within it.
520 8 $aBased on reliable primary sources - including diaries, Union and Confederate government documents, and letters - rather than exaggerated postwar recollections and such well-known but spurious "diaries" as that of John Ransom, Marvel's analysis exonerates camp commandant Henry Wirz and others from charges that they deliberately exterminated prisoners, a crime for which Wirz was executed after the war.
520 8 $aAccording to Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other necessities combined to create a crisis beyond Wirz's control. He also argues that the tragedy was aggravated by the Union decision to suspend prisoner exchanges, which meant that many men who might have returned home were instead left to sicken and die in captivity.
610 20 $aAndersonville Prison.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109757
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xPrisoners and prisons, Confederate.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zConfederate States of America.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108358
830 0 $aCivil War America.
852 00 $bglx$hE612.A5$iM44 1994