A journal of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England - and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor Prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners
By: Written by himself
Contributors: Babcock, Amos G.
Edition: 2nd ed. with considerable additions and improvements.
Publisher: Printed by Rowe & Hooper
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Dartmoor Prison
Notes: "A novel founded on fact"--Allibone, Dict. of athors.

Usually considered a work of fiction by Benjamin Waterhouse, but, according to H.R. Viets, edited by Waterhouse from a manuacript of Amos G. Babcock. cf. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, v. 12, July 1940, p. 605-622.