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During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as "The Bastille of the South." On February 9, 109 of those officers wriggled through a fifty-five-foot tunnel to freedom. After an all-out Rebel manhunt, survivors reached Washington, and their testimony spurred far-reaching investigations into the treatment of Union prisoners. Libby Prison Breakout tells the largely unknown story of 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."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Warfare & defence Other warfare & defence issues

• Full title: Libby Prison Breakout
• Subtitle: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison
• Author: Joseph Wheelan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781586489083
• ISBN: 9781586489083
• ID: 06279276
• Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. April 2011

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