Epilogue

Yankee Plague ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorien Foote
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Army Of Northern Virginia ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
Cape Fear River ◽  
Cape Fear ◽  
A Site ◽  
County Jails

The death of the Confederate prison system, like the death of the Confederacy itself, was an uneven process across space and time. After the exchange at the Northeast Cape Fear River, the Confederacy acquired new Federal prisoners of war during the subsequent military campaigns of Schofield and Sherman. Recaptured prisoners from the great escapes of late February still populated county jails. One thousand prisoners returned to Andersonville in early April. A few days before Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant, Colonel Henry Forno, the Confederate prison bureaucrat still in charge of the system in the Carolinas, wrote the new commissary general of prisoners, Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles, about building a new prison on a site eighteen miles from Columbia on the Charlotte & South Carolina Railroad line. “I am receiving small lots of prisoners and have no place to keep them but open fields,” Forno informed his superior. He estimated it would take him ten days to erect a stockade....

Confederate Gibraltar

2019 ◽  
pp. 278-291
Author(s):  
Philip Gerard
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Army Of Northern Virginia ◽  
Cape Fear River ◽  
Cape Fear ◽  
Open Port ◽  
The U.S

An immense sand fort guards the entrance to the Cape Fear River and the fairway to Wilmington, the last major open port of the Confederacy, through which blockade runners supply vital materiel for Gen. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. On Christmas Eve 1864, a U.S. Navy armada unleashes the heaviest bombardment in history on the fort, in advance of landing 6,500 assault troops. But the U.S. commander, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, falters, and only 2,300 troops make it ashore in roughening weather. They are stranded on the cold beach overnight without shelter. In the morning, the fleet sails away. Just three weeks later an even more powerful assault force returns, including USCT, who will play a crucial role in the battle. This assault is led by Brig. Gen. Alfred Terry and after six hours of heavy hand-to hand fighting forces the surrender of the fort.

Yankee Plague

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorien Foote
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Confederate States Of America ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
Federal Prisoners ◽  
Union Soldiers

During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate cause. In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America. By this point in the war, the Confederacy was reeling from prison overpopulation, a crumbling military, violence from internal enemies, and slavery’s breakdown. The fugitive Federals moving across the countryside in mass numbers, Foote argues, accelerated the collapse as slaves and deserters decided the presence of these men presented an opportune moment for escalated resistance. Blending rich analysis with an engaging narrative, Foote uses these ragged Union escapees as a lens with which to assess the dying Confederate States, providing a new window into the South’s ultimate defeat.

Wandering With William Bartram: The Section At Silver Bluff, South Carolina

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
W. Fallaw ◽  
David Snipes ◽  
Van Price
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Savannah River ◽  
Stratigraphic Section ◽  
William Bartram ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
Cape Fear River ◽  
Cape Fear

In his famous book, William Bartram (1791) described a stratigraphic section at Silver Bluff on the Savannah River in Aiken County, South Carolina, as dark, laminated clay containing belemnites, overlain by clays, sand, marl, and a shelly bed containing numerous oysters. There are now no known occurrences of marine megafossils in outcrops along the Savannah in Aiken County. The wording of Bartram's description of Cretaceous outcrops along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina indicates that the lower part of the Silver Bluff section was described from notes made on the Cape Fear and from his father's diary. The description of the upper beds at Silver Bluff may have been transferred from the Cape Fear, where fossiliferous Pliocene beds overlie the Cretaceous. It is probable, however, that it was from notes made at an Eocene locality in Georgia, most likely Shell Bluff on the Savannah River.

Revisiting Trauma: Wounds Seen and Unseen in Canadian and Indian Prison Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Lavanya Dalal
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Prison Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
A Site

Trauma Studies and Prison Narratives have emerged over the past few decades as the most significant fields in the humanities. There has been a significant discussion regarding the psychological effects of incarceration; however, literature examining prison as a site of trauma is unusual. Focusing on Iftikhar Gilani's My Days in Prison (2005) and Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman (1998), the article analyzes how prison narratives represent prison as a violent space that inflicts trauma in its characters. These prison narratives represent Yvonne Johnson, the prisoner in Stolen Life, and Gilani as victims of acute psychological trauma faced due to the sheer viciousness of the prison system. The article also concentrates on how the prison experience is both similar and different in Canada and India.    

Elevated Levels of Metals and Organic Pollutants in Fish and Clams in the Cape Fear River Watershed

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Mallin ◽  
Matthew R. McIver ◽  
Michael Fulton ◽  
Ed Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
River Watershed ◽  
Cape Fear River ◽  
Cape Fear
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