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Living by Inches - The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons (Hardcover)
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Living by Inches - The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War America
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From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious
prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be
everywhere during the American Civil War. Yet there is much we do
not know about the soldiers and civilians whose very lives were in
the hands of their enemies. Living by Inches is the first book to
examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity
through the basic building blocks of human experience--their five
senses. From the first whiffs of a prison warehouse to the taste of
cornbread and the feeling of lice, captivity assaulted prisoners'
perceptions of their environments and themselves. Evan A. Kutzler
demonstrates that the sensory experience of imprisonment produced
an inner struggle for men who sought to preserve their bodies,
their minds, and their sense of self as distinct from the
fundamentally uncivilized and filthy environments surrounding them.
From the mundane to the horrific, these men survived the daily
experiences of captivity by adjusting to their circumstances, even
if these transformations worried prisoners about what type of men
they were becoming.
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