A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa /

A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Army. -- Iowa Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1866) United States. -- Army. -- Iowa Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1866) Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography. Soldiers -- Iowa -- Biography. Military prisons -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources. Military prisons. Prisoners of war. Regimental histories. Soldiers. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Iowa -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 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. Iowa. United States. United States -- Confederate States of America. Electronic book. Biographies. History. Personal narratives. Sources. Biographies. Personal narratives.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115562

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Other authors / contributors:	Genoways, Ted. Genoways, Hugh H.
ISBN:	1587293277 9781587293276 9780877457596 0877457581 9780877457589 087745759X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-327) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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." "Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision of life in Civil War prisons as palpable and immediate as they are historically valuable. Captured four times during the course of the war, the 12th Iowa created narratives that reveal a picture of the changing southern prison system as the Confederacy grew ever weaker and illustrate the growing animosity many southerners felt for the Union soldiers."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Perfect picture of hell. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001 0877457581

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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. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-327) and index.
ISBN:	1587293277 9781587293276 9780877457596 0877457581 9780877457589 087745759X