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Libby Prison Breakout
While many books have been inspired by the horrors of Andersonville prison, none have chronicled with any depth or detail the amazing tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond. Now Joseph Wheelan examines what became the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison, one that ultimately increased the North’s and South’s willingness to use prisoners in ...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
February 9th 2010
by PublicAffairs
(first published 2010)
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Read this book after seeing it in the 'new books' section of the library. Living in Northern VA and having family in Richmond, I thought it would be interesting. The book sort of meandered through various stories about the daily lives and struggles of the Union prisoners at Libby, but didn't tell much of a consistent story. I enjoyed reading about the times, and the larger struggles with prisoners (both sides) during the Civil War, but found this book a little hard to get through.
A gift from Karen. Not something I would have picked on my own, but it was very good. Tells the story behind the Libby prison breakout during the civil war. Makes me want to revisit Richmond VA. Amazing how much punishment humans can give and endure.
What awful conditions they "lived" under. It's amazing that any of them lived through that. I don't know how they got the energy to dig a tunnel and then get to safety (in winter).
Very interesting. I stopped on page 143. Will finish later.
Interesting - what horrors men must have experienced to drive them to burrow fifty feet through the dark earth... This book showed the treatment of POW's as an indicator of the new era of "total war."
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