Download or read book Our Improved Treatment of Criminals in 1864 written by Sir Walter Crofton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Improved Treatment of Criminals in 1864 written by Walter Frederick Crofton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science written by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."

Download or read book Hellmira written by Derek Maxfield and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of the inhumane Union Civil War prison camp that became known as “the Andersonville of the North.” Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed only from the summer of 1864 to July 1865, but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man. Confederate prisoners called it “Hellmira.” Hastily constructed, poorly planned, and overcrowded, prisoner of war camps North and South were dumping grounds for the refuse of war. An unfortunate necessity, both sides regarded the camps as temporary inconveniences—and distractions from the important task of winning the war. There was no need, they believed, to construct expensive shelters or provide better rations. They needed only to sustain life long enough for the war to be won. Victory would deliver prisoners from their conditions. As a result, conditions in the prisoner of war camps amounted to a great humanitarian crisis, the extent of which could hardly be understood even after the blood stopped flowing on the battlefields. In the years after the war, as Reconstruction became increasingly bitter, the North pointed to Camp Sumter—better known as the Andersonville POW camp in Americus, Georgia—as evidence of the cruelty and barbarity of the Confederacy. The South, in turn, cited the camp in Elmira as a place where Union authorities withheld adequate food and shelter and purposefully caused thousands to suffer in the bitter cold. This finger-pointing by both sides would go on for over a century. And as it did, the legend of Hellmira grew. In this book, Derek Maxfield contextualizes the rise of prison camps during the Civil War, explores the failed exchange of prisoners, and tells the tale of the creation and evolution of the prison camp in Elmira. In the end, Maxfield suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure. Praise for Hellmira “A unique and informative contribution to the growing library of Civil War histories...Important and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review “A good book, and the author should be congratulated.” —Civil War News

Download or read book Address delivered before the Reformatory Section of the Social Science Association on the treatment of criminals in the Punjab with an account of visits to prisons in Southern India by Miss Mary Carpenter written by George HUTCHINSON (Major-General.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress Index of Subjects in Two Volumes written by U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869 and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of the Prison Association of New York written by Correctional Association of New York and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51st includes "Prison laws of the State of New York" (p. [157]-998)

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Download or read book New Haven s Civil War Hospital written by Ira Spar, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.