The Yankee plague : escaped Union prisoners and the collapse of the Confederacy /

The Yankee plague : escaped Union prisoners and the collapse of the Confederacy /

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During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into upstate South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of the local enslaved population, creating, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague." In this fascin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foote, Lorien, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Officers > History > 19th century.
Escaped prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.

Evans: Media and Reserves (Annex 1st floor)

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Call Number: E611 .F66 2016
 
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