Research Catalog

Title

The Immortal 600 : Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah / Karen Stokes.

Author

Stokes, Karen.

Publication

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

123 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

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 would suffer an even worse ordeal at Union-held Fort Pulaski near Savannah, Georgia, where they were subjected to severe food rationing as retaliatory policy. Author and historian Karen Stokes uses the prisoners' writings to relive the courage, fraternity and struggle of the "Immortal 600."

Alternative Title

Immortal Six Hundred

Subject

• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• 1800-1899
• Prisoners of war > Delaware > Fort Delaware > History > 19th century
• Prisoners of war > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century
• Prisoners of war > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century
• Prisoners of war
• United States > History > Prisoners and prisons, Union. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States > History > Prisoners and prisons, Confederate. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Delaware > Fort Delaware
• Georgia > Savannah
• South Carolina > Charleston
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-119).

Contents

Prisoners of War at Fort Delaware -- Under Fire on Morris Island -- Prison Life at Fort Pulaski -- Retaliatory Ordeal at Fort Pulaski -- Return to Fort Delaware.

ISBN

• 9781609499891
• 1609499891

LCCN

2013013802

OCLC

• ocn827261487
• SCSB-9483773

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library