A perfect picture of hell : eyewitness accounts by Civil War prisoners from the 12th Iowa / edited by Ted Genoways and Hugh H. Genoways.

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"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.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; EDITORS' NOTE; PROLOGUE; EYEWITNESSACCOUNT John H. Stibbs, Company D Account of Surrender at Shiloh; PRISON ACCOUNTS: ENLISTEDMEN Charles l. Sumbardo, Company I Incidents of Prison Life; George Erwin Comstock, Company C Reminiscences of S.C. Beck in Prison Life; Letter: October 24, 1862; Letter: November 5, 1862; Bryon P. Zuver, Company D Prisoner of War; PRISON ACCOUNTS: LIEUTENANTS Luther W. Jackson, Company H A Prison Diary; John W. Gift, Company Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862; Joseph B. Dorr, Company I Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion

Letter: June 11, 1862Letter: July 16, 1862; PRISON ACCOUNTS: OFFICERS John H. Stibbs, Company D An Account of Southern Prisons; An Open Letter; Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I Incidents of Prison Life in 1862; William W. Warner, Company C; Letter: May 23, 1862; Letter: May 28, 1862; Letter: June 13, 1862; RELEASE AND PAROLE Erastus B. Soper, Company D Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis; EYEWITNESSACCOUNT Erastus B. Soper, Company D Excerpts from the ''History of Company D, 12th Iowa''

PRISON ACCOUNT Allen M. Blanchard, Company D Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of WarPRISON ACCOUNT George Erwin Comstock, Company C A Prison Diary; EYEWITNESSACCOUNTS Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: Letter from an Eye Witness; William l. Henderson, Company C Letter: July 21, 1864; PRISON ACCOUNTS Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: Prepared by Himself

John De Vine, Company I An Account of Castle Morgan, CahabaJ. Warren Cotes, Company I A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of the Men Captured at Tupelo, July 15th, 1864; An Open Letter; EPILOGUE; John H. Stibbs Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz; Biographies of individuals mentioned in the accounts; Notes; Literature Cited; Index

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