Lorien Foote
Lorien Foote is a professor of history at Texas A&M University, with a specialty in the American Civil War and Reconstruction. She is the author of Seeking the One Great Remedy as well as The Gentlemen and the Roughs, which was a finalist for the 2011 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
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The Yankee Plague
- By: Lorien Foote
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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A rare and insightful account of the thousands of Union soldiers who escaped Confederate imprisonment and aided in the final dissolution of the Confederacy.
During the winter of 1864, more than three thousand Federal prisoners of war escaped from... Read more
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