American Prisoners of the Revolution

In the darkness of British prisons during the Revolutionary War, thousands of American soldiers suffered and died in conditions so brutal they nearly vanished from memory. Danske Dandridge spent years rescuing their stories from obscurity, weaving together fragments of letters, diaries, and testimony into a devastating account of endurance. The prisoners of New York's notorious sugar house and similar hellholes faced starvation, disease, and the calculated cruelty of Provost Marshal William Cunningham, whose name becomes synonymous with torment. This book reads less like history than like a memorial carved in grief. Dandridge wrote to honor her grandfather and the countless unnamed men who endured what no American should have to bear. She understood that without her effort, their suffering would disappear entirely.