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Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War By: Frank E. Moran |
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FAMOUS ADVENTURES
AND PRISON ESCAPES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[Illustration] NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1913 Copyright 1885, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, by THE CENTURY CO.
CONTENTS
PAGE WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH 1 THE LOCOMOTIVE CHASE IN GEORGIA 83 A ROMANCE OF MORGAN'S ROUGH RIDERS 116 COLONEL ROSE'S TUNNEL AT LIBBY PRISON 184 A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL OUT OF DIXIE 243 ESCAPE OF GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE 298
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE QUESTIONING A PRISONER Frontispiece THE LOCOMOTIVE CHASE 85 GENERAL JOHN H. MORGAN 117 MAP OF THE MORGAN RAID 118 THE FARMER FROM CALFKILLER CREEK 123 GENERAL DUKE TESTS THE PIES 125 HOSPITALITIES OF THE FARM 131 LOOKING FOR THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE VAN 137 CORRIDOR AND CELLS IN THE OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY CAPTAIN
HINES'S CELL 161 EXTERIOR OF THE PRISON EXIT FROM TUNNEL 163 WITHIN THE WOODEN GATE 167 OVER THE PRISON WALL 171 "HURRY UP, MAJOR!" 175 CAPTAIN HINES OBJECTS 178 COLONEL THOMAS E. ROSE 185 A CORNER OF LIBBY PRISON 187 LIBBY PRISON IN 1865 189 MAJOR A.G. HAMILTON 191 LIBBY PRISON IN 1884 197 LIBERTY! 223 FIGHTING THE RATS 230 SECTION OF INTERIOR OF LIBBY PRISON AND TUNNEL 233 GROUND PLAN OF LIBBY PRISON AND SURROUNDINGS 235 LIEUTENANTS E.E. SILL AND A.T. LAMSON 255 WE ARRIVE AT HEADEN'S 263 THE ESCAPE OF HEADEN 271 GREENVILLE JAIL 277 PINK BISHOP AT THE STILL 283 ARRIVAL HOME OF THE BAPTIST MINISTER 285 SURPRISED AT MRS. KITCHEN'S 291 THE MEETING WITH THE SECOND OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY 295 SAND AS A DEFENSE AGAINST MOSQUITOS 307 SEARCHING FOR TURTLES' EGGS 310 THROUGH A SHALLOW LAGOON 313 EXCHANGING THE BOAT FOR THE SLOOP 315 OVER A CORAL REEF 325 A ROUGH NIGHT IN THE GULF STREAM 331
FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WAR
WAR DIARY OF A UNION WOMAN IN THE SOUTH EDITED BY G.W. CABLE
The following diary was originally written in lead pencil and in a book
the leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly. I have it direct
from the hands of its writer, a lady whom I have had the honor to know
for nearly thirty years. For good reasons the author's name is omitted,
and the initials of people and the names of places are sometimes
fictitiously given. Many of the persons mentioned were my own
acquaintances and friends. When, some twenty years afterward, she first
resolved to publish it, she brought me a clear, complete copy in ink. It
had cost much trouble, she said; for much of the pencil writing had been
made under such disadvantages and was so faint that at times she could
decipher it only under direct sunlight. She had succeeded, however, in
making a copy, verbatim except for occasional improvement in the
grammatical form of a sentence, or now and then the omission, for
brevity's sake, of something unessential. The narrative has since been
severely abridged to bring it within magazine limits... Continue reading book >>
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