George W Alexander And Castle Thunder

Author : Frances H. Casstevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786437306

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George W. Alexander and Castle Thunder by Frances H. Casstevens Pdf

Captain George W. Alexander was a controversial figure in Richmond during the Civil War, honored as a hero and condemned as a cruel prison superintendent. He was appointed Provost Marshal and put in charge of Castle Thunder in 1862, after escaping imprisonment at Fort McHenry. At his Confederate prison in Richmond, he oversaw prisoners of all types, including Confederates, women, slaves, Federal deserters, and spies. This biography traces Alexander's life from the U.S. Navy voyage with Commodore Perry to Japan, hiding in Canada after Lee's surrender, editorship of Washington DC's Sunday Gazette to his death in 1895. The main body of the text concentrates on Alexander's time at Castle Thunder, but the book also explores the evolution of the prison system and the provost marshal's department, touching on unusual prisoners and escape attempts. Appendix 1 is a partial list of prisoners at Castle Thunder and when, where, and why they were arrested. Appendix 2 is a transcript of the court martial of Private John R. Jones. Appendix 3 lists prisoners sent from Camp Holmes and appendix 4 is a report of Alexander as Assistant Provost Marshall. Appendix 5 is a pamphlet published by the Republican Party National Committee; it struck at the Democratic Party by scorning its "military prison keepers."

Author : Albert Deane Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004845116

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The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert Deane Richardson Pdf

Experiences of a correspondent of the "New York Tribune" within the Confederate lines in 1861, and later with the Union armies and in southern prisons.

Author : Tobin T. Buhk
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780811745857

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True Crime in the Civil War by Tobin T. Buhk Pdf

Crime did not take a holiday during the Civil War, far from it. As Tobin Buhk shows in this fast-paced narrative, the war created new opportunities to gain profits from illegal activities, to settle old scores against personal enemies under the cover of fighting the nation's enemies, to pillage, plunder, and murder amid the carnage and destruction that seemed to offer license to legitimize such crimes. Students of the Civil War will find new information in this readable account. --James M. McPherson,Author of Battle Cry of Freedom • Examines criminal cases during the conflict • Cases include currency counterfeiting, tyrannical actions of Gen. Benjamin Butler, the murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn, raids by William Quantrill's Bushwhackers, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the horrific prison conditions at Andersonville, the fate of Lincoln the assassination conspirators, and more

Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391559

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Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy by Peter Carlson Pdf

Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves and pro-Union bushwhackers. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus moments of antic comedy. On their long, strange adventure, Junius and Albert encountered an astonishing variety of American characters—Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, Rebel con men and Union spies, a Confederate pirate-turned-playwright, a sadistic hangman nicknamed “the Anti-Christ,” a secret society called the Heroes of America, a Union guerrilla convinced that God protected him from Confederate bullets, and a mysterious teenage girl who rode to their rescue at just the right moment. Peter Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed K Blows Top, has, in Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy, written a gripping story about the lifesaving power of friendship and a surreal voyage through the bloody battlefields, dark prisons, and cold mountains of the Civil War.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3030 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851096824

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American Civil War [6 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker Pdf

This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction. The Civil War was undoubtedly the most important and seminal event in 19th-century American history. Students who understand the Civil War have a better grasp of the central dilemmas in the American historical narrative: states rights versus federalism, freedom versus slavery, the role of the military establishment, the extent of presidential powers, and individual rights versus collective rights. Many of these dilemmas continue to shape modern society and politics. This comprehensive work facilitates both detailed reading and quick referencing for readers from the high school level to senior scholars in the field. The exhaustive coverage of this encyclopedia includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the "total war" concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.

Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803293429

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Portals to Hell by Lonnie R. Speer Pdf

The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused the deaths of fifty-six thousand men, have been nearly forgotten. Now Lonnie R. Speer has brought to life the least-known men in the great struggle between the Union and the Confederacy, using their own words and observations as they endured a true ?hell on earth.? Drawing on scores of previously unpublished firsthand accounts, Portals to Hell presents the prisoners? experiences in great detail and from an impartial perspective. The first comprehensive study of all major prisons of both the North and the South, this chronicle analyzes the many complexities of the relationships among prisoners, guards, commandants, and government leaders.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637518

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Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies by John Stewart Pdf

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Working in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. A dazzling blonde from New York and a handsome Englishman, both with checkered pasts, they were matched in charm, cunning, duplicity and boldness. Betrayed by their own spymaster, Allan Pinkerton, they fell into the hands of the dictator of Richmond, the notorious General John H. "Hog" Winder. This lively history, scrupulously researched from all available sources, corrects the record on many points and definitively answers the long-standing question of Hattie Lawton's true identity.

Author : Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee to enquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1057396510

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Evidence Taken Before the Committee of the House of Representatives, Appointed to Enquire Into the Treatment of Prisoners at Castle Thunder by Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee to enquire into the treatment of prisoners at Castle Thunder Pdf

Author : Morgan E. Dowling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015071162252

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Southern Prisons: Or Josie the Heroine of Florence by Morgan E. Dowling Pdf

Author : J. North Conway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493044337

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Soldier Parrott by J. North Conway Pdf

Soldier Parrot brings a new level of research and personal grit to Civil War history with this riveting account of how Jacob Parrott, an 18-year-old, illiterate orphan from Ohio became the first soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Parrott, a private in the Union Army, volunteered in 1862 for a secret mission behind Confederate lines to steal a train, tear up railroad tracks, burn bridges, and cut telegraph lines. The mission failed. Parrott and his companions were captured. Several were hung as spies and Parrott spent nearly two years in a Confederate prison. Parrott was only eighteen-years old when he volunteered for the secret mission. He had never been farther than ten miles from his home in Fairfield County. Soldier Parrott is literally the stuff of history--a fast-paced, extremely well-told tale of espionage, capture, trial, and escape. Half the team was executed; the half that escaped received the newly established Medal of Honor.

Author : Sandra V. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002239834

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Richmond's Civil War Prisons by Sandra V. Parker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89082491945

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North & South by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth L. Van Lew
Publisher : Stackpole Classics
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110186959

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A Yankee Spy in Richmond by Elizabeth L. Van Lew Pdf

The extraordinary story of a woman spy deep in the heart of the Confederate capital. Elizabeth "Crazy Bet" Van Lew's adventures are captured in her letters and journal entries, which also betray her own fears and turmoil. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Daniel D. Hartzler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : WISC:89062166590

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Marylanders in the Confederacy by Daniel D. Hartzler Pdf

Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786492596

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Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia by Harry M. Ward Pdf

Virginia's capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics. One of the biggest stains in the city's past was the spectacle of public executions, attended by throngs. Thousands, including the old and the very young, reveled in a carnival-like atmosphere. This book narrates the history of the executions--hangings, and during the Civil War also firing squads--that formed a large part of Richmond's entertainment picture. Revulsion slowly mounted until the introduction of the electric chair. The history has a cast of unusual characters--the condemned, the crime victims, family members, the executioners, and not least an 182 pound "gallows" dog.