Lonnie Speer

War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs

Stackpole Books, 2002. Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. xvii+ 168 pages, with bibliography and index. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations. A look at the ways in which Civil War prisoners of war were actually often treated as opposed to the traditional historical views that this was the last "gentleman's war". Violent retaliation was most apparent within Federal and Confederate penetentiaries wheer prisoners were frequently subjected to both physical and mental abuse and actual torture and killing. Fine / very good. Item #E24191
ISBN: 9780811713887

Price: $10.00