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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."
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Wheelan, Joseph
- ISBN: 9781586489083
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.80 x 1.10
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 2011
Language:
English