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Libby Prison Breakout

The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison

By: Joseph Wheelan

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Paperback | 1 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North's and South's willingness to use prisoners in waging "total war."

In a converted tobacco warehouse, Libby's 1,200 Union officers survived on cornbread and bug-infested soup, and slept without blankets on the bare floor. With prisoner exchanges suspended, escape and death were the only ways out.

Libby Prison Breakout recounts the largely unknown story of the escape of 109 steel-nerved officers through a 55-foot tunnel, and their flight in winter through the heart of the enemy homeland, amid an all-out Rebel manhunt. The officers' later testimony in Washington spurred two far-reaching investigations and a new cycle of retaliation against Rebel captives.

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Prologue	p. ix
The Confederate Capital	p. 1
The POW Archipelago	p. 19
Inside Libby Prison	p. 31
The Defiant Colonel	p. 47
Misery and Retaliation	p. 65
Miss Van Lew's Spy Ring	p. 83
The Warrior Schoolteacher	p. 103
Test of Faith	p. 121
General Butler's Raid	p. 129
The Ordeal of Tunnel Four	p. 143
Escape	p. 157
Flight	p. 169
Fallout	p. 193
Epilogue	p. 219
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Notes	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 273
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