The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape

The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape

This book is a compilation of accounts of the atrocities of Confederate Prisons. it gives a completely different view and presents extreme hostility towards the former Confederates. The language in this book is pretty graphic at times and seems to be a smear campaign of Confederate prisons rather than an analytic study of how the conditions were during the last few months and years of the war. It is compiled by a former Union officer so there is probably still some hatred that runs in his veins, so you cannot really blame him for his callous words towards the Confederates.

Willard Glazier

Willard Glazier, Capture, The Prison Pen, and The Escape, (Hartford, CT: H.E. Goodwin, 1869), chap. 19.

1864-1865

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