Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War

by Lonnie R. Speer

Book Overview

The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true "hell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803293429
• ISBN13: 9780803293427
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Bison
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"