[Illustration: QUESTIONING A PRISONER.]
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
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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
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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
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil
- 2: But the original penciled pages show that
- 3: Chloe is a recent purchase from Georgia
- 4: IITHE VOLUNTEERS FORT SUMTER Feb
- 5: We scraped lint till it was dark
- 6: Edith danced around ringing the dinner bell and shouting
- 7: The battle of Manassas robed many of our women in mourning
- 8: This bazaar has furnished the gayest
- 9: The planter who owns the landing
- 10: Especially among the company of new volunteers
- 11: While Reeney stood by grinning to see them opened
- 12: Aunt Judy and Reeney had likewise to move into the house
- 13: We are very poor chess players
- 14: Red ink is now made out of pokeberries
- 15: They had no starch in Natchez or Vicksburg when I was there
- 16: In the boat the mosquitos were horrible
- 17: Steele's Bayou comes nearest to the Mississippi
- 18: And while Annie and Reeney are washing cups I have scribbled
- 19: Which ran out of the Yazoo that morning
- 20: Annie's father came into Vicksburg
- 21: The conscript camp was at Brookhaven
- 22: It secures him from conscription
- 23: Chickens seem to be kept like game in parks
- 24: A fair morning for my journey back to Vicksburg
- 25: XIIVICKSBURG We reached Vicksburg that night and went to H
- 26: Cave digging has become a regular business
- 27: XIIIPREPARATIONS FOR THE SIEGE Vicksburg
- 28: And had my wax candles sure enough
- 29: This morning the door bell rang a startling peal
- 30: Hasn't Pemberton acted like a fool
- 31: And the shelling had grown terrific
- 32: One cistern I had to give up to the soldiers
- 33: The undaunted Johnston is at hand
- 34: So I will put it in this toothpick
- 35: And the men in Vicksburg will never forgive Pemberton
- 36: Added a five dollar greenback to the pile
- 37: To help with from headquarters
- 38: He marched swiftly southward from Shelbyville
- 39: By the roadside about a mile east of Shelbyville
- 40: And the firemen hurried forward
- 41: We learned that the local freight would soon come also
- 42: At Adairsville they dropped the cars
- 43: Fuller says that they were terribly jolted
- 44: Fuller had written a despatch to Chattanooga
- 45: The hunt for the fugitive raiders was prompt
- 46: Mosby's partizan rangers by a
- 47: Mosby reserved the right to select all of his officers
- 48: For two years Mosby was our ruler
- 49: Mosby was sure to find an opportunity for attacking
- 50: Mosby dropped the paper with a sigh
- 51: The saber is comparatively harmless
- 52: Of which Morgan was the first captain
- 53: In his conference with General Bragg
- 54: Illustration THE FARMER FROM CALFKILLER CREEK
- 55: And the others ran back to the abatis
- 56: Without delay we passed through Springfield and Bardstown
- 57: Colonel Morgan charged the barricade
- 58: Independent of the provost guard
- 59: Gained the direct road to Cincinnati
- 60: And the gunboats swept the narrow pass with grape
- 61: General Morgan had gotten nearly over
- 62: And possibly Indianapolis itself
- 63: And bushwhacked his men from every hedge
- 64: And Miamiville that the raiders did little damage
- 65: Meantime sending a party to Buffington Bar
- 66: Shackelford reversed his column
- 67: That was a memorable Saturday in Wintersville
- 68: At Salineville he found Morgan
- 69: Burbick reported that he accepted Morgan's surrender
- 70: Its feasibility appeared to him unquestioned
- 71: Fortunately the deputy warden again ignorantly aided us
- 72: To the warden this seemed impossible
- 73: The following CASTLE MERION
- 74: Where we took supper with Daniel Piatt
- 75: Going in the direction of Burkesville
- 76: The halter was adjusted around my neck
- 77: I was taken to Kingston and placed in jail
- 78: The owner of the canoe agreed to start with me by daylight
- 79: Libby Prison fronts on Carey street
- 80: Being chiefly occupied by Chickamauga prisoners
- 81: And this straw afforded shelter
- 82: Vacant kitchen directly over this cellar
- 83: In front of which the sentinel was regularly passing
- 84: Some unusual favoring contingency should arise
- 85: And the soot from the chimney carefully swept into it
- 86: Had penetrated below the level of the canal
- 87: With Hamilton for his sole helper
- 88: While the others would crouch behind the low stone fenders
- 89: Ross was generally attended by either Dick Turner
- 90: McDonald was not further molested
- 91: 14 Footnote 14 In a volume entitled Four Months in Libby
- 92: The tunnel was now nearly completed
- 93: Rose once more entered with his chisel
- 94: He bade Colonel Hobart good by
- 95: Having lost Wilcox in the stampede
- 96: Illustration FIGHTING THE RATS
- 97: Illustration GROUND PLAN OF LIBBY PRISON AND SURROUNDINGS
- 98: Where he successfully avoided another picket
- 99: He was now nearing Williamsburg
- 100: The disarmed Confederate made no attempt at pursuit
- 101: Were halted along the Orange turnpike
- 102: My horse was cut on the flanks
- 103: Coot Brandon was one of Jeb Stuart's rangers
- 104: On hot days they appeared in spotless white duck
- 105: After a hurried conference with Lieutenant Byers
- 106: Dorr of the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry
- 107: Lamson of the 104th New York Infantry
- 108: The central dish was a pork pie
- 109: And were instantly yelping about us
- 110: And going directly to that of friendly old Tom Handcock
- 111: Tom Handcock was momentarily expected to join us
- 112: But bitterly upbraiding the refugees
- 113: Some distance behind them were Headen and Tigue
- 114: 19 Footnote 19 Sill and Lamson reached Loudon
- 115: The jail was a stone structure
- 116: Welty had been taken in the night before
- 117: Who was feebly moaning with rheumatism
- 118: Illustration PINK BISHOP AT THE STILL
- 119: Illustration ARRIVAL HOME OF THE BAPTIST MINISTER
- 120: Quince Edmonston and Mack Hooper
- 121: Mack had remained undiscovered under the bed
- 122: And before us lay only wild and uninhabited mountains
- 123: And recognized Lieutenant Barnwell of our escort
- 124: On the 13th we passed through Valdosta
- 125: Our party consisted of General Breckinridge
- 126: Which is pierced at different points by shifting inlets
- 127: By this time the steamer was abreast of us
- 128: But excepting kountee they had nothing to spare
- 129: Illustration EXCHANGING THE BOAT FOR THE SLOOP
- 130: The canoe returned to the shore
- 131: Hence their anxiety to detain us
- 132: Found us inside of Key Biscayne
- 133: Illustration OVER A CORAL REEF
- 134: But with two pelicans and a white crane
- 135: Colonel Wilson was stationed by the halyards
- 136: I replied that we were shipwrecked men
- 137: Volunteered to dive for some conchs and shell fish