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077 - "Stirring Violent Passions" - Civil War Prisons and Prisoners of War
About this episode:
Too often, we think only of wild assaults, the terrible collision of armed men, the desperate fighting of soldiers - often, hand to hand - and the killed and wounded but, in the American Civil War, we tend to overlook what happened to another element that comprised battle casualties: Those captured. This is the story about the American Civil War’s prisoners of war. This is also the story of the prisons that contained them.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Montgomery C. Meigs
William Hoffman
Henry Halleck
Thomas Rose
Henry Wirz
Edwin Stanton
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