"out of the Mouth of Hell": Civil War Prisons and Escapes by Frances H. Casstevens

"out of the Mouth of Hell": Civil War Prisons and Escapes

Frances H. Casstevens

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Many Civil War prisoners, Confederate and Federal, came to feel that a quick death from a bullet would have been better than slowly starving in a cold, crowded, filthy prison. The hope of freedom was sometimes the only thing that kept a prisoner a...

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