This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and the bodies were interred side by side without coffins. This haste was necessary to protect the living from the pollution of the air by rapidly decomposing bodies under the hot Southern sun. h--12 war he was arrested, tried by a military commission on charges of "combining, confederating and conspiring... to injure ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and the bodies were interred side by side without coffins. This haste was necessary to protect the living from the pollution of the air by rapidly decomposing bodies under the hot Southern sun. h--12 war he was arrested, tried by a military commission on charges of "combining, confederating and conspiring... to injure the health and destroy the lives of soldiers in the military service of the United States, then held and being prisoners of war, and... murder in violation of the laws and customs of war." He was convicted and executed November 10, 1865. There has been little attempt to rehabilitate him in the eyes of the world. While many Southerners have felt that he suffered for conditions for which he was not responsible, comparatively little has been said in his defense; but Colonel Chandler, whose terrible arraignment of Andersonville was so potent a factor in crystallizing the sentiment in regard to that place, says that Wirz struggled against uncontrollable conditions. Not long ago, a Federal soldier, once an inmate of the prison, reviewed the prison conditions at Andersonville, and came to practically the same conclusion. Another prisoner recently wrote: " I have always thought that Wirz was unfitted by nature and by natural ability for the command of as many men and of as important interests as was given to him during those sad months of 1864. He was a man of mercurial temperament, prone to anger, and prone to abuse. When things went well he was kind and good-natured; when they went ill he was the reverse.... He might have commanded a company well, and possibly a regiment, but thirty thousand men got away with him. He was at sea in their management." Other commandants and officers of prisons, including Major Thomas P. Turner of Ri...
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Add this copy of Prisons and Hospitals (the Photographic History of the to cart. $14.50, very good condition, Sold by Daedalus Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Castle Books.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Quarto, hardcover, near fine in VG blue pictorial dj. One of a set of ten in series. Illustrated throughout with B/W Photos. First published in 1911 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the great War, the volumes became very scarce. This reprint edition shows the multitude of photos taken during the war and this volume tells little of the war's pomp and pageantry. The subject is grim and terrible. Though prisoners of war were not criminals, often men whose courage was their only fault all prisons are horrible. The groans of men shattered and broken ebbing away from disease are awful to behold. It is the dark and cruel side of war that must be told. 352 pp.
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Add this copy of Prisons and Hospitals (the Photographic History of the to cart. $17.70, fair condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by The review of Reviews Co.
