Gray, Michael P. - The Business of captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison,

Kent, Kent State University Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0873387082. BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 228. With a double-page frontispiece, depicting a watercolour sketch map of Elmira, by former prisoner David Coffman; 16 halftone illustrations (some full-page); notes, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket. ~ FIRST EDITION. During its single year of existence, more than 12,000 Confederates were imprisoned in Elmira, New York, were suffering was acute and mortality high. Nearly 3,000 died while in captivity. This is a valuable and important study; the scholarship is clearly superior. Gray's work represents a significant achievement." Q-3 .

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