Rebels at Rock Island: the story of a Civil War prison is a book written by author Benton McAdams and was published by the Northern Illinois University Press in DeKalb, Illinois. This 260-page non-fiction book was published in 2000 based on a prison during the Civil War. Benton McAdams purpose to writing this book was to break the common thought that Rock Island prison was an overall horrible place for the prisoners to be in. The information given in the book can change people points of view and their opinions on whether the prison was actually as bad as people have said.
Rebels at Rock Island was written to change the readers’ viewpoint about the prison that is sometimes referred to as the “Andersonville of the North.” This is because of
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Important people such as William Hoffman, who controlled many prisons and squeezed every penny out of the prisons could to make a profit. Throughout chapters 2 and 3, the book really focuses on the prisoner’s life and the harsh conditions that not just the prisoners but also the owners of the prison went through. These harsh conditions include a blizzard that went passed the prison, “… the temperature dropped to twenty degrees below zero.” There was also an outbreak of many diseases and complaints that prisoners had such as smallpox, concussions, and broken bones. Many of the reasons why Rock Island Prison is also viewed as a horrible prison is because of other books and article. Then again nothing is perfect and there are always bumps in the …show more content…
This goes to show that there was hunger on both sides of the war, not only in the prisons. According to Exploring American Histories, Value Edition, union soldiers were basically fighting two battles, the Civil War and Hunger. “Rations, too, ran short.” The prisoners of war were sent to war prisons like the Rock Island where rations were also short. The Civil War also provided a somewhat a boom for companies and markets. They were a little hectic at first and struggled but as the war went on the companies were able to pick themselves up and thrive. The manufacturing of many items increased throughout the Civil War such as coal, cotton and wood which also meant that the money in the federal budget would also increase in a drastic matter, more than doubled.
At Rock Island many people suffered from hunger. This is largely due to the ration cuts that the prison system put in place to increase the amount of money in the prison fund. The ration cuts malnourished the prisoners, this is also why the prison was viewed as a bad place. The small town outside of the prison suffered at the beginning of the war because everyone was scared and did not want to go out or do anything but as the war progressed the small town boomed. Progress was slow when the war started and when Rock Island was being constructed and things remained
Due to the poor and unstable industries within the South, the Confederacy was not able to support and supply their army. The South had little to no food to supply their soldiers, due to the lack of farms. They were mainly focused on the cotton fields because the soil was damaged and all that could grow was cotton and cotton was the number one source of profit for them (Boyer 487). Besides cotton the South also made most of their money from the value slaves. Due to the war the South’s economy was fully destroyed, the output in the South decreased by 39% (Boyer 454).
August 1st, 1863 one of the worst prison camps for confederates in the civil war was created. Point Lookout was established right after the Battle of Gettysburg to take confederate soldiers. Point Lookout had caused many conflicts for prisoners in camp. Some conflicts that Point Lookout caused for soldiers was disease, hunger, and even death. Nearly 50,000 soldiers became prisoners and 4,000 died in the process.
Andersonville was the worst prison during the civil war. The prisoners were forced to live in the worst conditions, with disease killing most of them because there wasn’t medicine that they could take to fight off the illness. There were many dangers facing the prisoners in the prison like raiders and thieves. However, the flag displayed in the prison helped these men in hopeless times, acting as inspiration and giving them hope.
There was a special camp for those considered to be a severe threat located in Tule Lake, California. The buildings of the camps constructed substandardly of wood and tar paper. There were schools, hospitals, post offices and even libraries for the internees. But there was also barbed wire surrounding the camps and constant surveillance by armed
Cotton production plummeted from more than 4 million bales in 1861 to 300,000 bales four years later. Union troops occupied the South’s cotton and food producing areas. Food shortages made there army and people weak. The land growing cotton should have been converted to growing food. This ultimately caused many Confederate soldiers to abandon their units
This is a comparison of the prisoners in Camp 14 and the slaves in Kindred. There are similarities and differences when you talk about theses prisoners or even slaves. These were and are actual people being punished and killed for making little mistakes. They were being skin splitting whipped that they had life scares and every time they move it was a painful memory. They were killed anyway possible from a devastating gunshot to a bloody The food was awful both for the slaves in Kindred and the prisoners in Camp 14.
This helped out the union a lot because the soldiers of the union could eat the farm food that the farms of the north planted. Unlike in the south were all the farmers made cotton but soldiers couldn’t eat cotton so cotton didn’t help soldiers in battle, instead of farm food the confederacy made cotton and not very much farm food so the confederate army was starving. At the battle of Vicksburg Ulysses s Grant told the union army to continue a siege on the town of Vicksburg. During this battle the confederate army was hungry because the union army cut off all supplies of food from coming into Vicksburg. Well the soldiers had to eat so they ate bark off of trees and undigested corn in horse
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Some of the Adventures, Dangers, Sufferings by Joseph Plumb Martin, is a collection of tales starting from when he was just a young boy at the age of seven and quickly goes through his childhood on the farm with his grandparents on his mother's side. Mr. Martin describes his memories from a much later stage in his life at the age of 70 in the year 1830. This is the tales of the crippling weather conditions, terrible living conditions and war stories told by a young enlisted soldier during the war. Mr. Martin was born to a preacher and his wife in 1760 in western Massachusetts. The story begins when he was just a young boy who was sent to live with his grandparents on a farm.
Yet, the South had thirty-two percent or less of all of theses resources, there was a much lower chance of the South winning. Without much of theses resources it was much harder to help injured soldiers in the
In the years 1765-1785 three major events occurred in the effort of independence between the Colonies and Britain. The total outcome being the American Revolution; (a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1785 causing a overthrowing of the authority of Great Britain, and the founding of the United States of America.) Three distinct reasons that caused and accumulated colonist into the full-scale rebellion consist of political, economic, and Social reasons. Although there were various causes towards these events in history the two most impactful causes would be political and economic reasons that went throughout and led the independence movement, seven years war, and lastly the American Revolution. II.
The Reconstruction Era of American history was plagued by many problems. One of the most important problems being the recently released from slavery Freedmen. Freedmen were in a tricky situation in which they had just been released from their owner and had nowhere to go, but the Federal Government made many successful attempts to help them out. The Government helped alleviate all the problems Freedmen had from their finances to basic needs and rights, and in doing so, made the period of reconstruction more helpful than harmful for Freedmen. The events of reconstruction were helpful to freedmen as they were not only freed from slavery, they were given rights directly from the federal government.
Stance: Rikers should be closed Rikers Island is the main prison complex in New York City. It was established in the 1930s and remains to be functional to this day, holding approximately 10,000 inmates at a time (Lippman, J., & Mark-viverito, M. (2017, March 31)). Rikers Island has been source of controversy, where many believe that it creates more problems than it solves. From Rikers Island stories of mental and physical abuse arise, such as the story of Kalief Browder, an adolescent who took his own life after spending 3 years at the complex (Gonnerman, J. (2015, June 08)). Rikers Island must shut down for the sake of everyone who is related or involved with this prison complex.
“Where to Invade next” is a social documentary movie. In this movie, Moore first visited an island prison in Norway, this prison just like a resort with only four guards for a prison population of 114, the prisoner could go fishing and sunbathing. That was totally amazed me for sure when I got this information, but on the following act, the warden explained that:“ I don’t understand why you think this is a strange idea. … The main idea is just to take away their freedom. That’s the only punishment we are giving them, We are trying to help them back to society.”
WHAT IS SEEING IS BELIEVING? Faith " It's all about believing, you don't know how it will happen, but you know it will." "Stand up for what you believe in, even if it is true or false. In the text "The People Could Fly" on page 65 lines 68-69 states, " No one dared speaking about it. Couldn't believe it.
The Redcoats and rebels was written by Christopher Hibbert. Mr. Hibbert wrote the book “A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was awarded a DPhil by Leicester University in 2000” (Francis). In addition to Mr. Hibberts work and recognition, includes “His most substantial work was a two-volume biography of George IV, praised for its thoroughgoing, sympathetic assessment of a poorly understood figure: “George IV: Prince of Wales, 1762-1811” (1972) and “George IV: Regent and King, 1812-1830” (1973). He also wrote biographies of Charles I, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens and Benjamin Disraeli, as well as studies of Venice and London that, like his book on Rome, carried the designation “biography” in their subtitles” (Grimes). In addition,