The Immortal 600: Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah Contributor(s): Stokes, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609499891 ISBN-13: 9781609499891 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | Military - Pictorial |
Dewey: 973.771 |
LCCN: 2013013802 |
Series: Civil War |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.50 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
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Publisher Description: In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transported to South Carolina, where most were confined in a Union stockade prison on Morris Island. They were placed in front of two Union forts as "human shields" during the siege of Charleston and exposed to a fearful barrage of artillery fire from Confederate forts. Many of these men would suffer an even worse ordeal at Union-held Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia, where they were subjected to severe food rationing as retaliatory policy. Author and historian Karen Stokes uses the prisoners' writings to relive the courage, fraternity and struggle of the "Immortal 600." |
Contributor Bio(s): Stokes, Karen: - Karen Stokes is an archivist with the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a contributor to many historical publications regarding the Civil War. Her first book with History Press, South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path: Stories of Courage Amid Civil War Destruction, was published in 2012. |