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Frank E. Moran

d. 1892

A Union veteran and former prisoner of war, he turned his Civil War experience into vivid writing about captivity, escape, and memory. His best-known work pushes back against Lost Cause narratives with the urgency of someone who had lived through the prisons he described.

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Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War

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 Civil War memoirist and veteran who served as captain of Company H, 73rd New York Volunteers. In Bastiles of the Confederacy (published around 1890), he described his own twenty months of captivity in six Confederate military prisons and drew on official records, congressional reports, and trial evidence as well as personal experience.

The same book identifies him as a former historian of the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War. Its preface also notes that after the war he contributed many sketches and reminiscences to newspapers in Philadelphia, New York, and other cities, including a series in the Philadelphia Weekly Times in 1881–1882 and an illustrated Century Magazine article, "Colonel Rose's Tunnel at Libby Prison," published in March 1888.

Library and books-page records list him as having died in 1892. A clear, verified portrait image was not available from the sources I could confirm, so no profile image is included.