author
Frank E. Moran
d. 1892
A Civil War veteran turned writer, he drew on firsthand experience to tell gripping stories of imprisonment, escape, and survival. His work preserves the human side of the war through vivid, personal accounts.
1 Audiobook
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War
by Basil Wilson Duke, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, William Pittenger, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards) Richards, W. H. (William Henry) Shelton, Orlando B. Willcox, John Taylor Wood
About the author
Frank E. Moran was a 19th-century American writer best known for Civil War prison narratives. Records for his published work show him as the author of Bastiles of the Confederacy, issued in Baltimore around 1890, and as a contributor to accounts of Union prisoners and prison escapes.
His writing was closely tied to his own wartime experience. Contemporary and archival descriptions identify him as a former Union officer who was held at Libby Prison and later wrote about the famous tunnel escape there. That firsthand perspective gives his work an immediacy that still appeals to readers interested in memoir, military history, and true adventure.
Available source material on his personal life is limited, but library and bibliographic records consistently list him as having died in 1892. Because the online record is sparse and I could not confirm a reliable portrait image from the pages I found, no profile image is included here.