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Title: Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy by Mauriel P. Joslyn ISBN: 0-942597-96-6 Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A badly needed tonic
Comment: As a collateral descendant of one of the Immortal 600, Captain Harris Kollock Harrison, I am pleased to see this shameful episode of American history documented. Mauriel Phillips Joslyn has performed a very scholarly investigation not only into the treatment of the Immortal 600 but also into the fanatical thinking that was responsible for Federal prisoner policies during the war. Given the increasingly plastic and shallow views of the war being fed by the mainstream media and academia to the public about the war, "Immortal Captives" is a badly needed tonic, and, moreover, a reminder that Lincoln's war to preserve the Union by force was no altruistic exercise in human rights.
Rating: 5
Summary: Americas Buchenwald or Concentration camps
Comment: If you want to buy just one book about American POW camps during the Civil War, this would be an excellent one.
Using primary sources, the Federal Official Records ( O.R), 60 pages of footnotes and bibliographies, the mountain of evidence is overwhelming.
Why did the Union force the Confederate POWs to slowly die from staravation, is found in this book.
Why did Lincoln allow the Union to use these 600 Confederate POW officers to be used as HUMAN SHIELDS is also answered.
No this book isn't fiction; it is part of Americas shameful past it tries to keep hidden.
The truth will always come to the surface.
Mauriel Joslyn has done an excellet job with this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: The diaries and letters are powerful and evocative.
Comment: Any book that casts Southerners in a favorable light and especially any book that criticizes the Yankee victors is immediately suspect. As a Southerner, even one whose great grandfather served under one of the Immortal 600, I must confess to having held this book suspect. The book is not great literature as Ms. Joscelyn's connective prose is oftimes laborious. That said, the quotes from the officers' diaries and letters are powerful and evocative. I consider myself a thorough student and hardened reader of War Between the States literature and must confess to having failed to supress a tear from time to time. It is inconceivable to the modern American that the United States would have willfully and maliciously treated fellow human beings the way these men were treated The book will never be a best seller, but should be a must read for the student of the formative event of modern America.
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Title: The Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600 by Mauriel Joslyn ISBN: 0942597982 Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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