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


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Aug 26 2024 68 mins   19


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.



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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:


Montgomery C. Meigs


William Hoffman


Henry Halleck


Thomas Rose


Henry Wirz


Edwin Stanton



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