Directing, editing and graphic design, Ed Isenberg ; writing and art direction, D. Ezra Sidran. Voices, Barbara Campagna, David Clevenger, Dave Coopman, Andrew Gates, Ed Isenberg, Curt Roseman, Kelly Jean Sidran, Jason Stuart, Scott Tunnicliff ; Narration, James R. Loula, Sr.
Contents:
The legendary inmate of Rock Island -- The prison is built -- The prisoners arrive -- The copperhead edition -- Prison life -- Changing of the guard -- Galvanized Yankees -- The battle for history -- Rest in peace.
Summary:
The winter of 1863-64 was very cold in the Midwest, temperatures reaching as low as 32 degrees below zero Fahrenheit at Rock Island. During December of 1863, about 5000 Confederate prisoners were brought on dreadfully long train rides to a new, and ill-prepared, prison camp on Rock Island. Over the following twenty months the camp housed over 12,000 prisoners of war from the South of whom almost 2,000 would perish there.A severe winter and a cholera epidemic caused hundreds of prisoner deaths in its first months. However, its overall death rate was much lower than the rate at Andersonville. Special emphasis in the documentary will be placed on how the Rock Island Prison got its undeserved reputation as, "The Andersonville of the North." -- publisher description.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)811616072
Locations:
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)
UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)
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