Imprisoned Warriors: 12 Civil War Accounts of Battlefronts, Capture, Escapes and Life in Prison Camps
Twelve Civil War Narratives of Captivity and EscapeBy Daniel Avery Langworthy, John Azor Kellogg, James Madison Page, David W. Stafford, George A. Lawrence, John Levi Maile, William N. Tyler, W. H. Morgan, John McElroy, Alonzo Cooper, H. Clay Trumbull
Length73h 51m
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Imprisoned Warriors gathers twelve Civil War narratives that trace the brutal continuum from battlefield engagement and capture to attempted escape and imprisonment. Combining memoiristic testimony, military recollection, adventure narrative, and documentary observation, the volume illuminates prisons as contested spaces of endurance, memory, and moral judgment. Accounts of perilous flight, camp privation, comradeship, and confrontation with enemy authority give the anthology both narrative urgency and historical depth. The contributors—Daniel Avery Langworthy, John Azor Kellogg, James Madison Page, David W. Stafford, George A. Lawrence, John Levi Maile, William N. Tyler, W. H. Morgan, John McElroy, Alonzo Cooper, and H. Clay Trumbull—bring distinct experiences and narrative temperaments to a shared subject. Their voices belong to the wider nineteenth-century culture of Civil War remembrance, in which veterans transformed personal ordeal into public history. Taken together, these accounts complicate simplified images of military heroism by foregrounding vulnerability, improvisation, suffering, and the ethical pressures of captivity. This collection is especially valuable for readers of Civil War history, memoir, and trauma studies. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare divergent perspectives within one volume, observing how individual witnesses shape similar events into markedly different stories. Its breadth makes it an instructive and compelling entry point into the lived realities of wartime imprisonment and its enduring place in American memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length73 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
26CHAPTER XIII.
2Imprisoned Warriors: 12 Civil War Accounts of Battlefronts, Capture, Escapes and Life in Prison Camps
27CHAPTER XIV.
3The True Story of Andersonville Prison
28CHAPTER XV.
4Preface
29CHAPTER XVI.
5PART I. Andersonville: The Prisoners and Their Keeper (pt. 1)
30CHAPTER XVII.
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6PART I. Andersonville: The Prisoners and Their Keeper (pt. 2)
31CHAPTER XVIII.
7PART II. Henry Wirz: The Man and His Trial
32CHAPTER XIX.
8Prison Life in Andersonville
33CHAPTER XX.
9CHAPTER I.
34CHAPTER XXI.
10CHAPTER IV.
35CHAPTER XXII.
11CHAPTER X.
36CHAPTER XXIII.
12Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
37CHAPTER XXIV.
13AUTHOR'S PREFACE
38CHAPTER XXV.
14CHAPTER I.
39CHAPTER XXVI.
15CHAPTER II.
40CHAPTER XXVII.
16CHAPTER III.
41CHAPTER XXVIII.
17CHAPTER IV.
42CHAPTER XXIX.
18CHAPTER V.
43CHAPTER XXX.
19CHAPTER VI.
44CHAPTER XXXI.
20CHAPTER VII.
45CHAPTER XXXII.
21CHAPTER VIII.
46CHAPTER XXXIII.
22CHAPTER IX.
47CHAPTER XXXIV.
23CHAPTER X.
48CHAPTER XXXV.
24CHAPTER XI.
49CHAPTER XXXVI.
25CHAPTER XII.
50CHAPTER XXXVII.
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