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100 1 $aMcAdams, Benton.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00036186
245 10 $aRebels at Rock Island :$bthe story of a Civil War prison /$cBenton McAdams.
260 $aDeKalb, Ill. :$bNorthern Illinois University Press,$c2000.
300 $axiv, 260 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-251) and index.
520 1 $a"While the testimony of its famous fictional inmate, Ashley Wilkes of Gone with the Wind, has helped to cast Rock Island's reputation as the "Andersonville of the North," McAdams shows that this Illinois prison was considerably more humane than some accounts have suggested.".
520 8 $a"Rock island, like other Civil War prisons, was not without problems, including brutal weather, incompetent guards, and inadequate facilities. Malnutrition, smallpox, and a lack of basic supplies were just some of the hardships prisoners suffered, in part because of the eccentric miserliness of William Hoffman, Union commissary general of prisoners, who focused on financial concerns over human needs.
520 8 $aThe conditions at Rock Island were, however, no worse than at other Northern prisons such as Camp Douglas, nor was the prison's mission to be unjustly cruel. McAdams establishes that the Union officers in charge of the camp sought to maintain humane conditions in the face of severe shortages, disease, and a war that raged on longer and with greater hardships than anyone had anticipated.".
520 8 $a"Showing how Rock Island was a microcosm of the political mood of the entire nation during the Civil War, McAdams gives special attention to the prison's political and economic ties to the local community, including controversies between the camp commander and the local Copperhead newspaper editor. Readers interested in the Civil War, prison systems, and Illinois politics will find a fresh and fascinating story in Rebels at Rock Island.
520 8 $aTwo dozen rare photographs round out the unflinching descriptions of prison life."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aRock Island Arsenal (Ill.)$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xPrisoners and prisons.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140264
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140441
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zIllinois$zRock Island$xHistory$y19th century.
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