Living by Inches : the Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. 'Living by Inches' examines how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses
eBook, English, 2019
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2019
History
1 online resource (209 pages)
9781469653808, 9781469653778, 146965380X, 146965377X
1127139765
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Bite and be damned!
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