Libby Prison breakout : the daring escape from the notorious Civil War prison
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Libby Prison breakout : the daring escape from the notorious Civil War prison
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- Libby Prison breakout : the daring escape from the notorious Civil War prison
- Title remainder
- the daring escape from the notorious Civil War prison
- Statement of responsibility
- Joseph Wheelan
- Subject
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- 1800 - 1899
- Armed Forces -- Officers
- Escaped prisoners of war
- Escaped prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History
- Libby Prison
- Libby Prison
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Virginia | Richmond -- History -- 19th century
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war -- Virginia | Richmond -- History -- 19th century
- Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Tunnels
- Tunnels -- Virginia | Richmond -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- United States, Army
- United States, Army -- Officers | History -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Richmond
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North's and South's willingness to use prisoners in waging "total war." In a converted tobacco warehouse, Libby's 1,200 Union officers survived on cornbread and bug-infested soup, and slept without blankets on the bare floor. With prisoner exchanges suspended, escape and death
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 973.7/72
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E612.L6
- LC item number
- W48 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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