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The camp, the battle field, and the hospital; or, Lights and shadows of the great rebellion. Including adventures of spies and scouts, thrilling incidents, daring exploits, heroic deeds, wonderful escapes, sanitary and hospital scenes, prison scenes,

Published later, 1892, without change of text, by the Star pub. co. of Jersey City, under title: Scouts, spies, and heroes of the great civil war, by Captain Joseph Powers Hazelton [pseud.?] A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. Also available in digital form.

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Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc.

The writer was captured at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864, and subsequently confined at Libby, Macon, Savannah and Charleston. He escaped in October, and the greater part of the book is devoted to his adventures in reaching the Union lines. Also available in digital form.

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Southern military prisons and escapes

Title from cover. "Prepared and read by request before the Minnesota Loyal Legion, at Minneapolis, Nov. 11, 1890." Also available in digital form.

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