author
Benjamin F. Hasson
A Union officer whose memoir tells a tense, firsthand Civil War escape story, writing with the directness of someone who lived every mile of it. His surviving work is less a polished literary career than a vivid personal account of capture, imprisonment, and determination.
1 Audiobook
Escape from the Confederacy
by Benjamin F. Hasson
About the author
Best known for Escape from the Confederacy, Benjamin F. Hasson left behind a concise but memorable Civil War memoir. Sources available in this search identify him as a Union officer and connect his book with his capture by Confederate forces and his escape from a prison train bound for Andersonville.
The book was published around 1900 and has remained in circulation through public-domain archives and Project Gutenberg. Its appeal comes from its plainspoken immediacy: rather than offering a broad history of the war, Hasson focuses on the dangers, hardships, and quick thinking involved in staying alive and reaching Union lines.
Very little biographical information about his wider life was clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed here, which makes the memoir itself the main window into who he was. For listeners interested in personal narratives of the American Civil War, his writing stands out for its sense of urgency and lived experience.