John Ransom S Andersonville Diary

Author : John L. Ransom
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004925180

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John Ransom's Andersonville Diary by John L. Ransom Pdf

John Ransom was a twenty-year-old Union soldier when he wascaptured in 1863 and became a prisoner of war. Held in the infamousAndersonville prison until he was near death, Ransom never gave up his loveof life. He hated the conditions of his captivity, but not his captors--men likehimself who were caught in the whirlwind of forces beyond their control.With a rate honesty simplicity, and insight, Ransom unfolds a tale of struggleand survival in the worst of the confederate prison camps. His diary,enhanced by his own drawings, is a testament to the indomitable humanspirit and provides a unique viewpoint of the most wrenching of America'swars.

Author : John L. Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Civil war
ISBN : UOM:39015071161338

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Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead by John L. Ransom Pdf

Author : John L. Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1105299166

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John Ransom's Diary by John L. Ransom Pdf

Author : John L. Ransom
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486809045

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John Ransom's Civil War Diary by John L. Ransom Pdf

John L. Ransom joined the Union Army in 1862, serving as brigade quartermaster of the Ninth Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. A year later, the 20-year-old soldier was captured in Tennessee and interned at the notorious Georgia prison camp, Andersonville. Ransom's harrowing firsthand account of Civil War prison life constitutes a valuable historical record — a true story not only of cruelty, death, and deprivations but also of acts of courage and kindness that ensured the young soldier's survival and preserved his faith in humanity.

Author : J.L. Ransom
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9785881520625

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Andersonville diary by J.L. Ransom Pdf

One of the most starkly vivid and detailed accounts of survival in Georgia's notorious Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. John Ransom was only 20 years old at the time of his capture. He kept a nearly daily diary during his year of misery at the Confederate prison. He and his fellow Union prisoners endured lice, starvation, freezing cold, killing heat, theft from other inmates...and Captain Wirtz. "Capt. Wirtz very domineering and abusive. Is afraid to come into camp any more. There are a thousand men in here who would willingly die if they could kill him first." Death was a daily occurrence. Yet Ransom knew if he gave up hope, he would die. He somehow kept his humor and kept on writing. Through two escapes, time in a Rebel hospital, and eventual freedom, you'll read a POW account like none you've ever read before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746940338

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Andersonville Diary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas H. Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015071161346

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Index and Addenda to John Ransom's Andersonville Diary by Thomas H. Reed Pdf

Author : Mackinlay Kantor
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0808576178

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Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor Pdf

Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered - and 14,000 died - and of the people whose lives were changed by the grim camp where the best and the worst of the Civil War came together. Here is the savagery of the camp commandant, the deep compassion of a nearby planter and his gentle daughter, the merging of valor and viciousness within the stockade itself, and the day-to-day fight for survival among the cowards, cutthroats, innocents, and idealists thrown together by the brutal struggle between North and South. A moving portrait of the bravery of people faced with hopeless tragedy, this is the inspiring American classic of an unforgettable period in American history.

Author : Ovid L. Futch
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813059402

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History of Andersonville Prison by Ovid L. Futch Pdf

In February 1864, five hundred Union prisoners of war arrived at the Confederate stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia. Andersonville, as it was later known, would become legendary for its brutality and mistreatment, with the highest mortality rate--over 30 percent--of any Civil War prison. Fourteen months later, 32,000 men were imprisoned there. Most of the prisoners suffered greatly because of poor organization, meager supplies, the Federal government’s refusal to exchange prisoners, and the cruelty of men supporting a government engaged in a losing battle for survival. Who was responsible for allowing so much squalor, mismanagement, and waste at Andersonville? Looking for an answer, Ovid Futch cuts through charges and countercharges that have made the camp a subject of bitter controversy. He examines diaries and firsthand accounts of prisoners, guards, and officers, and both Confederate and Federal government records (including the transcript of the trial of Capt. Henry Wirz, the alleged "fiend of Andersonville"). First published in 1968, this groundbreaking volume has never gone out of print.

Author : James Madison Page
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781582181486

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The True Story of Andersonville by James Madison Page Pdf

During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Wirz, or Captain Wirz, his rank during Page’s confinement. Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz was unjustly held responsible for the hardship and mortality of Andersonville. It is his belief that the Federal authorities must share the blame for these things with Confederate authorities, since they were well aware of the inability of the Confederacy to meet the reasonable wants of their prisoners of war, as they lacked supplies for their own needs and since the Federal authorities failed to exercise a humane policy in the exchange of those captured in battle.

Author : James Massie Gillispie
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574412550

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Andersonvilles of the North by James Massie Gillispie Pdf

This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.

Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674202910

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A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut Pdf

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Author : John L. Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Andersonville (Ga.)
ISBN : LCCN:02001860

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Andersonville Diary by John L. Ransom Pdf

Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Michael Horigan
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0811732762

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Elmira by Michael Horigan Pdf

"In this exhaustively researched study, Horigan points several fingers of guilt at Federal authorities for why 'Helmira' had a death rate almost equal to that at Andersonville. This is the definitive work on a Union prison compound that should never have been one of the worst in the Civil War"--Back cover.