Henry Carter Hull

Provides an account of the conditions to which American patriots were subjected as prisoners of the British in New York City during the Revolutionary War, describing the high mortality rates as a result of unsanitary conditions and starvation.

Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment in 19th-century America and contends that officers in charge of military prisons drew on administrative and punitive practices that existed in antebellum...