Yankee Plague (eBook)

Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

Lorien Foote (Autor)

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2016
256 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3056-4 (ISBN)

Infos

During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "e;Yankee plague,"e; heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America. By this point in the war, the Confederacy was reeling from prison overpopulation, a crumbling military, violence from internal enemies, and slavery's breakdown. The fugitive Federals moving across the countryside in mass numbers, Foote argues, accelerated the collapse as slaves and deserters decided the presence of these men presented an opportune moment for escalated resistance. Blending rich analysis with an engaging narrative, Foote uses these ragged Union escapees as a lens with which to assess the dying Confederate States, providing a new window into the South's ultimate defeat.

Autor

Lorien Foote is the Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones, 5 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Camp Sorghum prison camp • children in the Civil War • civil • Civil War and Charleston, South Carolina • Civil War and Charlotte, North Carolina • Civil War and Columbia, South Carolina • Civil War and Knoxville, Tennessee • Civil War and state militias. • Civil War and Wilmington, North Carolina • Civil War home front • Civil War in East Tennessee • Civil War in North Carolina • Civil War in South Carolina • Civil War in the Appalachians • Civil War prisoners of war • collapse of the Confederacy • Confederate deserters • Confederate prisons • escaped prisoners of war • Florence prison camp • guerrilla warfare in Civil War • irregular warfare in North Carolina • Salisbury prison camp • Sherman’s campaign in the Carolinas • Sherman’s campaign in the Carolinas • slave religion in South Carolina • slavery in South Carolina • Wilmington campaign • women in the Civil War
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3056-7 / 1469630567
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3056-4 / 9781469630564