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"Captives in Blue," a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger PickenpaughOCOs earlier groundbreaking book "Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union," rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities. a In June of 1861, only a few weeks after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each side continue to vilify the other for POW maltreatment. Roger PickenpaughOCOs two studies of Civil War prisoners of war facilities complement one another and offer a thoughtful exploration of issues that captives taken from both sides of the Civil War faced. a In "Captives in Blue," Pickenpaugh tackles issues such as the ways the Confederate Army contended with the growing prison population, the variations in the policies and practices inthe different Confederate prison camps, the effects these policies and practices had on Union prisoners, and the logistics of prisoner exchanges. Digging further into prison policy and practices, Pi

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Author

Roger Pickenpaugh

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817386511

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14