prisoners and prisons

Anecdotes detail a Confederate soldier's life in the Civil War as he becomes a crack shot, leader, and an escaped POW.

Contains the Civil War journal of Private George Hitchcock, telling of his experiences beginning in August 1862 and continuing through his discharge in January 1865.

Chronicles the experiences of the Union prisoners of war who died at Andersonville Prison from February 1864 to May 1865.

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

Describes the large Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia, known as Camp Sumter or Andersonville, and the harsh conditions that killed many prisoners there during the Civil War.

In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.

A fictional diary of Union soldier Ira Cahill Stevens, telling of his feelings and experiences as an inmate in a desperately overcrowded Confederate prison camp in 1864.

Chronicle of Civil War prisons taken from diaries, letters, official war records, and newspaper articles.

A fact-based novel which follows the experiences of Josiah Day, a Union soldier who was captured in 1864 and sent to the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia.