Libby Prison Breakout : The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison Paperback / softback
by Joseph Wheelan
Paperback / softback
Description
During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of the South." On February 9, 109 of those officers wriggled through a fifty-five-foot tunnel to freedom.
After an all-out Rebel manhunt, survivors reached Washington, and their testimony spurred far-reaching investigations into the treatment of Union prisoners. Libby Prison Breakout tells the largely unknown story of the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North's and South's willingness to use prisoners in waging "total war."
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 8-pp. b/w insert on text
- Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication Date:05/04/2011
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- ISBN:9781586489083
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 8-pp. b/w insert on text
- Publisher:PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Publication Date:05/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781586489083
