description: While fighting with the Union Army during the Civil War, Charles Robinson wrote to his family regularly providing details of the battle going on around him and the conditions that had become his daily routine in life. These letters gave a startling account to a period in time that is now a part of our history books. Now, 140 years later, Charles Robinson’s great, great-nephew, Stewart J. Petrie, has collected these letters along with historical and familial notes to comprise his latest work of historical fiction, "Captive of Libby Prison." The follow-up story to Petrie’s first historical fiction, "Letters and Journal of a Civil War Surgeon," Petrie has captured the view of a Civil War soldier and the battle waging around him. Readers follow Robinson into the battlefield, witnessing the drama around him through both his letters and the daily events in his life. On a mission into the Shenandoah Valley, Charles, along with the other men in his regiment, is captured by Rebel soldiers and taken to Libby Prison located in Richmond, Virginia. Petrie allows his readers to follow Robinson into the prison and witness the horrid conditions both Robinson and his fellow prison mates have to survive. After his release, Robinson re-enlists into the military, accepting the rank of Captain only to be recaptured at the Battle of the Crater by Confederate Soldiers and placed in Libby Prison once again. Stewart Petrie’s latest work of historical fiction not only brings to life a war that starved a nation, but offers a personal narrative of one man who was there, witnessing what we can now only read in history books.
language: English
title: Captive of Libby Prison
titlecomplete: Captive of Libby Prison
publisher: Ivy House Pub Group