Escape! - The Story of Confederacy s Infamous Libby Prison Civil War s Largest

Robert P. Watson provides the definitive account of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison, site of the Civil War's largest prison break. Libby Prison housed Union officers, high-profile foes of the Confederacy, and political prisoners. Watson captures the wretched conditions, cruel guards, and the story of the daring prison break, called "the most remarkable in American history."

List of contents

Preface
Prologue: The Tunnel
Part I: War
1 "The Great Unpleasantness"
2 Libby & Son
3 "What Is to Be Done with the Prisoners?"
4 To War
Part II: Prison
5 "The Castle of Despair"
6 Captured
7 "All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here"
8 The Libby Lyceum
Part III: Tunnel
9 "The Underground Road to Liberty"
10 "Rat Hell"
11 Close Calls
12 The Evil Turners
Part IV: Escape
13 Desperation
14 "Godspeed!"

About the author

Robert P. Watson, Distinguished Professor of History at Lynn University is the author of many books on American politics and history including, most recently, America’s First Plague: The 1793 Epidemic that Crippled a Young Nation (R&L, 2023): Escape! The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's Largest Jail Break (R&L, 2021),George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2021), The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution (Da Capo Press, 2017, and The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (Da Capo Press, 2016), which is currently being made into a motion picture. He resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Robert P. Watson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781538138229
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3822-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, military history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, American Civil War, American Civil War and Reconstruction (1861–1877), Civil War;Confederacy;History;Prison Escaps;Union Soldiers