Haunted by atrocity [electronic resource] : Civil War prisons in American memory / Benjamin G. Cloyd.
Series: Making the modern SouthPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.Description: xii, 251 p., [12] p. of plates : illISBN:- 9780807136416 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807136417 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Military prisons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Military prisons -- Confederate States of America -- History
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America
- Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities
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- E615 .C58 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Our souls are filled with unutterable anguish" atrocity and the origins of divisive memory, 1861-1865 -- "Remember Andersonville" recrimination during Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- "This nation cannot afford to forget" contesting the memory of suffering, 1877-1898 -- "We are the living witnesses" the limitations of reconciliation, 1898-1914 -- "A more proper perspective" objectivity in the shadow of twentieth-century war, 1914-1960 -- "Better to take advantage of outsiders' curiosity" the consumption of objective memory, 1960-present -- "The task of history is never done" Andersonville National Historic Site, the national POW museum, and the triumph of patriotic memory.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.