About the Author

Roger Pickenpaugh recently retired after a thirty-year teaching career at Shenandoah Middle School in Sarahsville, Ohio. His books include studies of outstanding weather events in Ohio and the Civil War. His first book in the latter category was "Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863." In recent years he has studied Civil War prisons. His first book on that topic was "Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy." This was the study of a major Ohio prison. Last year the University of Alabama Press published "Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union." Pickenpaugh is now completing a companion volume, "Captives in Blue." Pickenpaugh lives in Noble County Ohio with his wife and co-researcher, Marion.

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