The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape, Giving a Complete History of Prison Life in the South.

Willard W. Glazier

Published by H. E. Goodwin, Hartford, CT, 1868

About this Item

Octavo. Pp. 400. An early printing: the first edition, 1865, is very hard to find. To continue the title page "Principally at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Belle Isle, Millin, Salisbury, and Andersonville: describing the arrival of prisoners, plans of escape, with numerous varied incidents and anecdotes of prison life; embracing also, the adventures of the author's escape from Columbia, S.C, recapture, subsequent escape, recapture, trial as a spy, and final escape from Sylvania, Georgia." With frontispiece portrait, and ten wood engraved illustrations. The appendix contains a list of Union officers imprisoned in the South. Brevet Captain Glazier, from upstate NY, joined the Harris Light Cavalry in 1861. His account of the harrowing conditions of POWs in the South became a best seller, and started him on a career as explorer and author. A very good copy in green publisher's cloth, gilt. Owner's name dated 1868; lean to spine; rear free endpaper missing; light wear to extremities, otherwise fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape, Giving a Complete History of Prison Life in the South.
• Publisher: H. E. Goodwin, Hartford, CT
• Publication Date: 1868
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket