Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War

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.