Great Civil War escapes
By: by A. I. Schutzer. Illustrated by Tran Mawicke.
Contributors: Mawicke, Tran, illus.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Escapes -- Juvenile literature; Escapes; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Description: Accounts of one Union and two Confederate prison escapes: Colonel Thomas Rose led men from Virginia's Libby Prison; General John Hunt Morgan broke out of an escape-proof prison in Ohio; and Sergeant Berry Benson escaped from Elmira, New York, to rejoin his own forces in Virginia.