Military Prisons of the Civil War: A Comparative Study - Keller, David L.
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A Fresh Analysis of the First Large-Scale Imprisonment of Soldiers in Wartime and Its Failures In Military Prisons of the Civil War: A Comparative Analysis historic preservationist David L. Keller consulted official records, newspaper reports, first-person accounts from prisoners, and other primary source material in order to understand why imprisonment during the Civil War failed on both sides. His research identifies five factors shared among both Union and Confederate prisons that led to so many deaths, including the lack of a strategic plan on either side for handling prisoners, inadequate…mehr

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A Fresh Analysis of the First Large-Scale Imprisonment of Soldiers in Wartime and Its Failures In Military Prisons of the Civil War: A Comparative Analysis historic preservationist David L. Keller consulted official records, newspaper reports, first-person accounts from prisoners, and other primary source material in order to understand why imprisonment during the Civil War failed on both sides. His research identifies five factors shared among both Union and Confederate prisons that led to so many deaths, including the lack of a strategic plan on either side for handling prisoners, inadequate plans for holding prisoners for long periods of time, and poor selection and training of camp command and guards.
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DAVID L. KELLER is managing director of the Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation. He has published two studies on Civil War prison camps for the National Park Service and is author of The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison, Command at Antietam: Lincoln, McClellan and Lee at the Turning Point of the Civil War, and editor of Robert Anderson Bagby: Civil War Diary 1863-1865.