author
Daniel Avery Langworthy
b. 1832
A Civil War captain and physician, he wrote a firsthand memoir that follows captivity, escape, and survival with the directness of someone who lived every page. His account offers a personal view of war that feels immediate more than a century later.
1 Audiobook
Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape
by Daniel Avery Langworthy
About the author
Born in 1832, Daniel Avery Langworthy is known for Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape, a memoir drawn from his own wartime experience. Library and ebook records identify him as the book's author and connect him with the American Civil War.
In the work itself, Langworthy describes having been a young physician in New York City before the war and later serving as a captain in the 85th New York Volunteer Infantry. That background gives the book much of its appeal: it reads less like distant history and more like a personal record of endurance, observation, and determination.
He dated the memoir from Minneapolis in 1915, suggesting he wrote it late in life as a way of preserving what he had seen and survived. For listeners interested in eyewitness Civil War writing, his work stands out for its plainspoken, lived perspective.