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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 15 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Danny Campbell. |
| Summary |
Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the New York Tribune, were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent twenty months in horrific Confederate prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus many moments of antic comedy. They must endure the Confederacy's most notorious prison; rely on forged passes and the secret signals of a covert pro-Union organization in North Carolina; trust a legendary guerilla leader; be hidden by slaves during the day in plantation slave quarters; and ultimately depend on a mysterious, anonymous woman on a white horse to guide them to safety. They traveled for 340 miles, most of it on foot, much of it through snow, in twenty-six days. This is a marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits living in the shadows of the Civil War. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Richardson, Albert D. (Albert Deane), 1833-1869.
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Browne, Junius Henri, 1833-1902.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons, Confederate.
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Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
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Escapes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Campbell, Danny. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781622311699 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1622311698 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11418400 |
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