An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va.

by W. H. (William Henry) Newlin

EN·~4 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Escape of Six Federal Soldiers FROM PRISON AT DANVILLE, VA.:

0:31

PREFACE.

3:52

INTRODUCTION.

6:25

CHAPTER I.

53:55

CHAPTER II.

52:43

CHAPTER III.

30:48

CHAPTER IV.

15:45

CHAPTER V.

27:27

CHAPTER VI.

27:02

CHAPTER VII.

20:41

Description

The other escaping prisoners were L.B. Smith, 4th Mich. Cav.; W. Sutherland, 16th U.S. Inf.; W.C. Trippe, 16th U.S. Inf.; J.F. Wood, 26th Ohio Inf.; R.G. Taylor, 2d Mass. Cav.

Details

Language

Duration

~4 hours (278K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Christopher Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2016-01-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives Prisoner-of-war escapes Danville Prison E456

About the author

W. H. (William Henry) Newlin

A Union Army lieutenant turned memoirist, he wrote with the urgency of someone who had lived every page. His best-known book follows a daring Civil War prison escape and preserves the grit, fear, and determination of the journey in vivid firsthand detail.

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