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The Immortal Six Hundred : A Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War by John Murray (2015, Trade Paperback)

This book chronicles the ordeal of six hundred Confederate officers who were confined by their Yankee captors in the stockade on Morris Island, South Carolina, directly under the fire of Confederate guns, and then were subsequently starved on rations of rotten corn and onion pickle at Fort Pulaski, Georgia and Hilton Head, South Carolina by order of U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. The author, a Major in the Confederate Army, was one of the survivors of the group.

Book Title
Immortal Six Hundred : a Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War
Author
John Murray
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History
Number of Pages
222 Pages

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