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BL
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850703
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Citron, Joel D.,1941-2017
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| Title & Author
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Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware : : the legend of mistreatment reexamined /\ Joel D. Citron.
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, North Carolina :: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,, [2018]
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viii, 228 pages ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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1476628963
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: 1476669228
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: 9781476628967
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: 9781476669229
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9781476628967
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Topography and weather -- Command structure, personnel and administration -- Prison camp administration and security -- The food ration -- The prison fund -- Shelter and clothing -- Water supply and sanitation -- Outside help -- Medical care -- Death rates: the final arbiter -- Life on Pea Patch Island -- Freedom! -- Conclusions.
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| Abstract
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"During the Civil War, drawing on contemporaneous prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), the author presents a fresh and detailed study of supposed prisoner mistreatment at Fort Delaware--one of the largest Union prison camps--and draws some surprising conclusions, some of which have implications for the entire Union prison camp system"--
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Prisoners of war-- Delaware-- Fort Delaware-- History-- 19th century.
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Prisoners of war-- Delaware-- Fort Delaware-- Social conditions-- 19th century.
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Prisoners of war-- Social conditions.
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Prisoners of war.
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Prisoners of War-- history.
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Prisoners of War-- psychology.
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American Civil War.
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History, 19th Century.
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Physical Abuse-- history.
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Social Conditions-- history.
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Fort Delaware (Del.)
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners and prisons.
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Delaware.
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Delaware, Fort Delaware.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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975.1/1
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| LC Classification
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E616.D3C56 2018
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| NLM classification
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2019 E-935
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WA 11 AD4
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