author
Frank E. Moran
d. 1892
A Civil War officer turned memoirist, he wrote vivid firsthand accounts of Union imprisonment in the South and the desperate escapes that became part of wartime legend.
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
A captain in Company H of the 73rd New York Volunteers, he served with the Excelsior Brigade during the Civil War. Sources linked to his published work identify him as a former Union officer and prisoner of war, and they connect him especially with Libby Prison and other Confederate prisons.
He is best known for Bastiles of the Confederacy, a firsthand narrative about the treatment of Union prisoners in Southern military prisons. His writing also appeared in accounts of Libby Prison life and in later collections about Civil War prison escapes, giving readers a direct, personal view of captivity, endurance, and survival.
Library and book-history records list him as Frank E. Moran with a death year of 1892. While not much biographical detail appears to be readily available online beyond his military service and authorship, his work remains of interest to readers looking for personal Civil War testimony rather than a distant historical summary.