Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War

Military buffs and penologists are in for a treat with this awesome anthology of famous skirmishes and prison escapes from the American Civil War, which includes a look at the events surrounding Morgan’s Raid and the notorious Libby Prison Escape (which saw over 100 Union POW’s break out of a Confederate Army camp). There is also War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, The Locomotive Chase in Georgia by William Pittenger, Mosby’s ‘Partizan Rangers’ by A. E. Richards, The Escape by Thomas H. Hines, A Hard Road to Travel out of Dixie by W. H. Shelton and Escape of General Breckinridge by John Taylor Wood.

George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. His fiction has been compared to the work of William Faulkner.

Basil Wilson Duke (May 28, 1838 - September 16, 1916) was a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. His most noted service in the war was as second-in-command for his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan; Duke would later write a popular account of Morgan's most famous raid: 1863's Morgan's Raid.

Thomas Henry Hines (October 8, 1838 - January 23, 1898) was a Confederate cavalryman who was known for his spying activities during the last two years of the American Civil War.

Francis J. Lippitt (1812-1902) was a lawyer and veteran of the Mexican American War and Colonel and Brigadier General in the American Civil War.

William Pittenger (January 31, 1840 - April 24, 1904) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Orlando Bolivar Willcox (April 16, 1823 - May 11, 1907) was an American soldier who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

John Taylor Wood (August 13, 1830 - July 19, 1904) was an officer in the United States Navy who resigned after the American Civil War started. He became a "leading Confederate naval hero" as a captain in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. After the conflict, he escaped to Cuba and then to Nova Scotia where he became a merchant and lived out his days with his wife and children.