It takes the average reader 5 hours and 6 minutes to read Captives in Blue by Roger Pickenpaugh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Captives in Blue, a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh’s earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities. In June of 1861, only a few weeks after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each side continue to vilify the other for POW...
Captives in Blue by Roger Pickenpaugh is 303 pages long, and a total of 76,659 words.
This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 58 minutes to read Captives in Blue aloud.
Captives in Blue is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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