The Capture, The Prison Pen and the Escape; Giving An Account Of Prison Life In The South, Principally at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Millian, Salisbury, and Andersonville: Describing the Arrival of Prisoners, Plans of Escape, with Incidents and Anecdotes of Prison Life; Embracing Also the Adventures of an Escape from Columbia, S. C., Recapture, Trial as Spy and Final Escape from Sylvania, Georgia. With Illustrations.

Glazier, Willard W.

Published by H. E. Goodwin, Hartford, Connecticut, 1869

About this Item

Early reprint in brown cloth with gilt decoration and titling, frontis. portrait of author + ten illus. (listed), detailed table of contents, appendix, 400pp. Dornbusch I: #N-84. Nevins I: p. 192. Good with faded spine (typical of this binding); exposed head/foot and corners; foxing on frontis. and tissue; nice and tight. Complete with full-page illustrations of prison life in Confederate prisons. Valuable appendix listing of Union P.O.W.s.

Seller Inventory # 7859-7541

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Capture, The Prison Pen and the Escape; Giving An Account Of Prison Life In The South, Principally at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Millian, Salisbury, and Andersonville: Describing the Arrival of Prisoners, Plans of Escape, with Incidents and Anecdotes of Prison Life; Embracing Also the Adventures of an Escape from Columbia, S. C., Recapture, Trial as Spy and Final Escape from Sylvania, Georgia. With Illustrations.
• Publisher: H. E. Goodwin, Hartford, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 1869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket