Monday Aug 26, 2024

077 - "Stirring Violent Passions" - Civil War Prisons and Prisoners of War

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About this episode: 

Too often, we think only of wild assaults, the terrible collision of armed men, the desperate fighting of soldiers - often, hand to hand - and the killed and wounded but, in the American Civil War, we tend to overlook what happened to another element that comprised battle casualties: Those captured. This is the story about the American Civil War’s prisoners of war. This is also the story of the prisons that contained them. 

         

Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:

Montgomery C. Meigs

William Hoffman

Henry Halleck

Thomas Rose

Henry Wirz

Edwin Stanton

 

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Producer: Dan Irving

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