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Castle Thunder : The Confederate Provost Marshal's Prison, 1862-1865, Alan Lawrence Golden
Castle Thunder : The Confederate Provost Marshal's Prison, 1862-1865, Alan Lawrence Golden
Master's Theses
The Civil War is, in many respects, one of the most tragic, yet fascinating periods of this nation's history. During the last one hundred years scholars have stud ied numerous aspects of this conflict in great detail. The subject of this thesis, however, has received meager attention. The focus of this study is the Provost Marshal's prison in Richmond, Virginia, called Eastern District Military Prison or, as it is more commonly known, Castle Thunder. Castle Thunder was the only prison of its kind in the South as most of its inmates were political prisoners, deserters, and criminals, rather than captured …