# Libby Prison Breakout

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- Authors: [Joseph Wheelan](https://www.bookquiver.com/joseph-wheelan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-04-05

## Description

During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison, known as " The Bastille of the South." On February 9, 109 of those officers wriggled through a fifty-five-foot tunnel to freedom. After an all-out Rebel manhunt, survivors reached Washington, and their testimony spurred far-reaching investigations into the treatment of Union prisoners. Libby Prison Breakout tells the largely unknown story of 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 waging " total war."

## Editions

### Libby Prison Breakout

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-908-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-04-05
- Language: en_GB