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Author:

Procko, Steve, author.

Title:

Captured freedom : the thrilling true story of POWs escaping the grasp of the rebels / Steve Procko.

Publisher:

There's History Around Every Bend,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

332 pages, plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Army--History--History--19th century.
Prisoner-of-war escapes--Richmond--Richmond--History--19th century.
Tunnels--Richmond--Richmond--History--19th century.
Prisoners of war--Richmond--Richmond--History--19th century.
Prisoners of war--United States--History--19th century.
Escaped prisoners of war--United States--History--19th century.
United States--Prisoners and prisons.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Captured Freedom is the epic true story of nine Union prisoners-of-war who escaped from a Confederate Prison known as Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina in November 1864. They scrambled north on foot in rags that had once been uniforms of blue. Traveling in brutal winter conditions more than 300 miles with search parties and bloodhounds hot on their trail. On the difficult journey they relied on the help of enslaved men and women, as well as Southerners who sympathized with the North, before finally reaching Union lines on New Years Day 1865. After arriving in Knoxville, Tennessee, and checking in with Union authorities, one of the men had a wonderful idea. The nine officers and their three mountain guides found a local photographer, hoping to commemorate what they had accomplished by posing together for a photograph. The instant, frozen in time, showed twelve ragged men with determination strong on their faces. It was a Civil War selfie. A moment that Captured Freedom.

ISBN:

9798988024408

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1396943355

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)