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So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons
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So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons Hardback - 2003

by Philip Burnham

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Across the North, 26,000 Rebels died in what was called "Yankee captivity"--six times the number of Confederate dead listed for the battle of Gettysburg, and twice that for the Southern dead of Antietam, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Seven Days, Shiloh, and Second Manassas combined. "If there was ever a hell on earth," one Confederate veteran remembered, "Elmira prison was that hell." New York's POW camp--nicknamed "Helmira"--was the most infamous of Northern prisons during the Civil War, places where hunger, brutality, and disease were everyday hazards.
So Far from Dixie is the gripping narrative history of five men who were sent to Elmira and survived to document their stories. Berry Benson promised that he would escape the prison under honorable circumstances. Anthony Keiley charmed Union authorities into giving him a job at Elmira and later became mayor of Richmond, Virginia. John King refused to build coffins for his fellow prisoners. Marcus Toney disdained to take the Union oath of loyalty until long after the war had ended. And Frank Wilkenson, a Union army volunteer only fifteen years old, endured the same humiliating punishments meted out to the prisoners he was guarding.

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  • Title So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons
  • Author Philip Burnham
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Taylor Trade Publishing, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-09-04
  • ISBN 9781589790162 / 1589790162
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.19 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.02 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Prisoners of war - United States - History -, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003005067
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.772

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Philip Burnham, author of How the Other Half Lived: A People's Guide to American Historic Sites (ISBN 0571198627), lives in Washington, D.C.

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