The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure (Douglas Miller - CH) pa by Lucas E Morel

by Lucas E Morel

Part dual biography and part Civil War history

Libbie Custer

Edited by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes and Chris Mackowski

Garret family

The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure (Douglas Miller - CH) pa by Lucas E Morelby Douglas Miller The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U. S. history. It took place during the Civil War, when more than 1,200 Yankee officers were jammed into Libby, a special prison considered escape proof, in the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. A small group of men, obsessed with escape, mapped out an elaborate plan and one cold and clear night, 109 men dug their way