| ISBN: | 9780393541090 |
| Call Number: | 973.7 BRU |
| Author: | Brundage, W. Fitzhugh |
| Title: | A fate worse than Hell : |
| SubTitle: | American prisoners of the Civil War |
| Responsibility: | W. Fitzhugh Brundage |
| Variable title: | American prisoners of the Civil War |
| Edition: | 1st. ed. |
| Publish City: | New York, NY : |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton & Company, |
| Publish Date: | 2026 |
| Physical Desc.: | 446 pages |
| Note : Biblio.: | Includes select bibliography pages 411-418 |
| Note : Content: | Includes notes and index. |
| Summary: | It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well known than the war's death toll are the roughly 400,000 who were captured and imprisoned-a milestone in the history of mass dehumanization. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. |
| Subject : Topical: | Prisoners of war Abuse of United States History 19th century |
| Subject : Topical: | 1861-1865 |
| Subject : Geographic name: | United States |
| Subject : Geographic name: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons |