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Famous adventures and prison excapes of Civil War

Additional authors: Author -- Cable, George Washington | Author -- Pittenger, William | Author -- Richards, Adolphus E. | Author -- Duke, Basil Wilson | Author -- Willcox, Orlando Bolivar | Author -- Hines, Thomas H. | Author -- Moran, Frank E. | Author -- Shelton, W. H. | Author -- Wood, John Taylor
Published by : The Century Co. (New York) Physical details: 333 p.
Subject(s): Mosby, John Singleton -- 1833-1916 | Breckinridge, John C. -- 1821-1875 | | | | | Personal narratives -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- United States
Year: 1893
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War diary of a Union woman in the South, ed. by G.W. Cable.--
The locomotive chase in Georgia, by W. Pittenger.--
Mosby's "Partizan rangers", by A.E. Richards.--
A romance of Morgan's rough-riders: The raid, by B.W. Duke. The capture, by O.B. Willcox. The excape by T.H. Hines.--
Colonel Rose's tunnel at Libby prison, by F.E. Morgan.--
A hard road to travel out of Dixie, by W.H. Shelton.--
Escape of General Breckenridge, by J.T. Wood.

Military buffs and penologists are in for a treat with this awesome anthology of famous skirmishes and prison escapes from the American Civil War, which includes a look at the events surrounding Morgan’s Raid and the notorious Libby Prison Escape (which saw over 100 Union POW’s break out of a Confederate Army camp). There is also War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, The Locomotive Chase in Georgia by William Pittenger, Mosby’s ‘Partizan Rangers’ by A. E. Richards, The Escape by Thomas H. Hines, A Hard Road to Travel out of Dixie by W. H. Shelton and Escape of General Breckinridge by John Taylor Wood.

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