Book- Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

Thrilling stories of war-time adventure with absolute fidelity and by writers who participated in the events described.

300 pages of the most daring and romantic episodes of the Civil War.

A seminal work of the era:

True stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.

“We have been told that it is best for women to learn how to shoot too, so as to protect themselves when the men have all gone to battle.

Every evening after dinner we adjourn to the back lot and fire at a target with pistols.

Yesterday I dined at Uncle Ralph's. Some members of the bar were present, and were jubilant about their brand-new Confederacy.

It would soon be the grandest government ever known.”

For those who did not die on the battlefield, but who were instead taken prisoner, the Civil War presented an even more piercing version of hell.

Prison conditions were horrendous, and the prisoners frequently died of starvation and disease.

These accounts of prison escapes show what desperate men will do, fleeing absolute peril to land behind enemy lines, struggling to get back to their own side and live to fight another day.

Searing and difficult, this account puts readers into the minds of men at the breaking point, compelled to risk death for freedom.

War Diary of a Union Woman in the South

The Locomotive Chase in Georgia

Mosby's "Partizan Rangers"

A Romance of Morgan's Rough-riders

Colonel Rose's Tunnel at Libby Prison

A Hard Road to Travel out of Dixie

Escape of General Breckinridge

296 pages.