Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
Daring Raids, Captivity Breakouts, and Eyewitness Tales from a Divided NationBy Anonymous, William Pittenger, John Taylor Wood, Frank E. Moran, Orlando B. Willcox, A.E. Richards, Basil W. Duke, Thomas H. Hines, W.H. Shelton
Length9h 53m
About this audiobook
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition) gathers firsthand and near-contemporary accounts of captivity, evasion, reconnaissance, and military endurance from America's defining nineteenth-century conflict. Moving between memoir, adventure narrative, testimonial history, and the vivid conventions of popular war writing, the volume charts the precarious boundary between imprisonment and freedom. Its episodes of ingenious flight, dangerous travel, and improvised survival acquire added force through illustration, which situates individual ordeals within the material world of camps, railways, battle lines, and divided communities. The contributors—among them soldiers, naval officers, and observers connected to both Union and Confederate experiences—bring sharply differing regional, institutional, and personal memories to the subject. William Pittenger, John Taylor Wood, Frank E. Moran, Orlando B. Willcox, A. E. Richards, Basil W. Duke, Thomas H. Hines, and W. H. Shelton, alongside anonymous testimony, collectively reflect the Civil War memoir tradition and its enduring struggle to transform private trauma into public history. Their voices illuminate loyalty, ingenuity, honor, and the contested meanings of endurance. This edition is especially rewarding for readers of Civil War history, military memoir, and nineteenth-century American literature. It offers a rare opportunity to compare perspectives across allegiances and narrative modes, while considering how adventure stories shape historical memory. Read together, these accounts foster a compelling dialogue between personal risk, national rupture, and the art of remembrance.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
2I SECESSION
3II THE VOLUNTEERS — FORT SUMTER
4III TRIBULATION
5IV A BELEAGUERED CITY
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6V MARRIED
7VI HOW IT WAS IN ARKANSAS
8VII THE FIGHT FOR FOOD AND CLOTHING
9VIII DROWNED OUT AND STARVED OUT
10IX HOMELESS AND SHELTERLESS
11X FRIGHTS AND PERILS IN STEELE'S BAYOU
12XI WILD TIMES IN MISSISSIPPI
13XII VICKSBURG
14XIII PREPARATIONS FOR THE SIEGE
15THE LOCOMOTIVE CHASE IN GEORGIA
16MOSBY'S "PARTIZAN RANGERS"
17A ROMANCE OF MORGAN'S ROUGH-RIDERS
18I. THE RAID
19II. THE CAPTURE
20III. THE ESCAPE
21COLONEL ROSE'S TUNNEL AT LIBBY PRISON
22A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL OUT OF DIXIE
23ESCAPE OF GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE
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