Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and US Prisoner of War Policy

First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper ("To Smith, Best wishes to a relative of one of these brave men.") Quite scarce with signature. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Original scholarship with first-hand stories from participants, the book recounts the history of 600 Confederate prisoners of war that were held at Fort Pulaski, Georgia.

"This path-breaking study belongs in every library devoted to combat in the South, to questions about treatment of captured prisoners of war, and to the fate of Confederate veterans after the end of the war in 1865.

As the Civil War's prisoner of war exchange system collapsed in 1863, the Union attempted new policies and procedures to control its growing number of captured Confederates. Historian Mauriel Joslyn has here used the treatment of those six hundred captives to analyze the larger issues raised about the treatment of prisoners of war. Skillfully interweaving the accounts of the prisoners with documents found in her archival research, she never neglects their part in the war, their heroism, and their families.

Immortal Captives is the story of Union and Confederate efforts and experiments with placement of prisoners before and during the siege of Fort Pulaski, Georgia in the last year of the war. Joslyn never lets the reader forget the rich social contexts in which those climactic events took place. Paying attention to the fate and claims of the prisoners after the war, she also adds significantly to our understanding of what happened to veterans after the war's end." (Immortal Captives)