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The War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Confederate Winder family, who shattered family ties to stand with the Union.
Gen. John H. Winder was the commandant of most prison camps in the Confederacy, including Andersonville. When Winder gave his son William Andrew Winder the order to come south and fight, desert, or commit suicide, William went to the White House and swore his allegiance to President Lincoln and the Union. Despite his pleas to remain at the front, it was not enough. Winder was ordered to command Alcatraz, a fortress that became a Civil War prison, where he treated his prisoners humanely despite repeated accusations of disloyalty and treason because the Winder name had become shorthand for brutality during an already brutal war.
John Winder died before he could be brought to justice as a war criminal. Haunted by his father's villainy, William went into a self-imposed exile for twenty years and eventually ended up at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, to fulfill his longstanding desire to better the lot of Native Americans.
In The War Criminal's Son Jane Singer evokes the universal themes of loyalty, shame, and redemption in the face of unspeakable cruelty.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Bedeviled Winter of War
2. The Double Agent and the Captain
3. Of Toil, Treason, and the Golden Land
4. A Godforsaken Fortress
5. Treason at Alcatraz
6. A Rebel Cell
7. Invasions, Arrests, and Cannon Fire
8. The Loyal Man and the Madman
9. A Slog to Hell
10. The War Criminal's Son
11. Of Resignation, Railroads, and Exile
12. Heal Thyself
13. The Lone and Goodly Doctor
14. Pension or Ruination
15. Round Valley
16. Rosebud
17. Of Lives Lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index
