DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/1XVE-S834
Author ORCID Identifier
orcid.org/0000-0002-9574-4779
Defense Date
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
History
First Advisor
Dr. Kathryn S. Meier
Second Advisor
Dr. Ryan K. Smith
Third Advisor
Dr. John M. Coski
Abstract
The study of Civil War prisons is relatively new within the broader study of the Civil War. What little study there is tends to focus on bigger prison camps. It has been established in the historiography that prisoners suffered across the divided nation, but it has not been ascertained how the decisions and policies of the government, as well as the role of the press in those decisions, effected the daily lives of Civil War prisoners. Belle Isle, a Confederate Prison, and Point Lookout, a Union prison, will be analyzed for key differences to provide a fuller picture of life inside a Civil War prison camp, as well as how the press and government affected that daily life. It was discovered that the role of the government and the press was heavily influential in the lives of Civil War prisoners, leading to much suffering.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
4-20-2017