So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons - Paperback

So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons - Paperback

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So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons - Paperback
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So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons - Paperback

So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons - Paperback

$32.20
$32.20

by Philip Burnham (Author)

"An outstanding narrative of prison life."--Civil War Times

"Those searching for a probing story about life in Civil War prisons will not be disappointed with Philip Burnham's So Far from Dixie."--Civil War News

Across the North, 26,000 Rebels died in what was called "Yankee captivity"--six times the number of Confederate dead listed for the Battle of Gettysburg, and twice that for the Southern dead of Antietam, Chickamauga, Chancellorsville, Seven Days, Shiloh, and Second Manassas combined. "If there was ever a hell on earth," one Confederate veteran remembered, "Elmira prison was that hell." New York's POW camp--nicknamed "Helmira"--was the most infamous of Northern prisons during the Civil War, places where hunger, brutality, and disease were everyday hazards.
So Far from Dixie is the gripping narrative history of five men who were sent to Elmira and survived to document their stories. Berry Benson promised that he would escape the prison under honorable circumstances. Anthony Keiley charmed Union authorities into giving him a job at Elmira and later became mayor of Richmond, Virginia. John King refused to build coffins for his fellow prisoners. Marcus Toney disdained to take the Union oath of loyalty until long after the war had ended. And Frank Wilkeson, a Union army volunteer only fifteen years old, endured the same humiliating punishments meted out to the prisoners he was guarding.

Author Biography

Philip Burnham, also the author of How the Other Half Lived: A People's Guide to American Historic Sites, The Education of Clarence Three Stars: A Lakota American Life, Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks, and Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 03, 2026

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