Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy discusses an important yet often misunderstood topic in American History.
Camp Chase was a major Union POW camp and also served at various times as a Union military training facility and as quarters for Union soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Confederacy and released on parole or exchanged. As such, this careful, thorough, and objective examination of the history and administration of the camp will be of true significance in the literature on the Civil War.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Training Camp 2. Improvised Prison Camp 3. Parole Camp 4. Exchange and Escape 5. The Search for Stability 6. The Lives of the Prisoners 7. The Health of the Prisoners 8. “i think i feel a change” Afterword: Keeping Alive the Memory Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
Roger Pickenpaugh is the author of Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union and Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863.