The Immortal 600: Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah - Paperback
by Karen Stokes
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Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781609499891ISBN-10:1609499891UPC:9781609499891Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & Local, PictorialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC9W8WNR0A
In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transported to South Carolina, where most were confined in a Union stockade prison on Morris Island.
They were placed in front of two Union forts as human shields during the siege of Charleston and exposed to a fearful barrage of artillery fire from Confederate forts. Many of these men...
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781609499891ISBN-10:1609499891UPC:9781609499891Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, MilitaryBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & Local, PictorialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC9W8WNR0A
Stokes, Karen: - Karen Stokes is an archivist with the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a contributor to many historical publications regarding the Civil War. Her first book with History Press, South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path: Stories of Courage Amid Civil War Destruction, was published in 2012.
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