Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection.

01 - War Diary Of A Union Woman In The South edited by G.W. Cable Part 1 02 - War Diary Of A Union Woman In The South edited by G.W. Cable Part 2 03 - War Diary Of A Union Woman In The South edited by G.W. Cable Part 3 04 - War Diary Of A Union Woman In The South edited by G.W. Cable Part 4 05 - The Locomotive Chase In Georgia by William Pittenger 06 - Mosby's 'Partizan Rangers' by A.E. Richards 07 - A Romance Of Morgan's Rough-Riders by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox and Thomas H. Hines Part 1 08 - A Romance Of Morgan's Rough-Riders by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox and Thomas H. Hines Part 2 09 - A Romance Of Morgan's Rough-Riders by Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox and Thomas H. Hines Part 3 10 - Colonel Rose's Tunnel At Libby Prison by Frank E. Moran Part 1 11 - Colonel Rose's Tunnel At Libby Prison by Frank E. Moran Part 2 12 - Colonel Rose's Tunnel At Libby Prison by Frank E. Moran Part 3 13 - A Hard Road To Travel Out Of Dixie by W.H. Shelton Part 1 14 - A Hard Road To Travel Out Of Dixie by W.H. Shelton Part 2 15 - A Hard Road To Travel Out Of Dixie by W.H. Shelton Part 3 16 - Escape Of General Breckinridge by John Taylor Wood Part 1 17 - Escape Of General Breckinridge by John Taylor Wood Part 2

The following diary was originally written in lead-pencil and in a book the leaves of which were too soft to take ink legibly. I have it direct from the hands of its writer, a lady whom I have had the honor to know for nearly thirty years. For good reasons the author's name is omitted, and the initials of people and the names of places are sometimes fictitiously given. Many of the persons mentioned were my own acquaintances and friends. When, some twenty years afterward, she first resolved to publish it, she brought me a clear, complete copy in ink. It had cost much trouble, she said; for much of the pencil writing had been made under such disadvantages and was so faint that at times she could decipher it only under direct sunlight. She had succeeded, however, in making a copy, verbatim except for occasional improvement in the grammatical form of a sentence, or now and then the omission, for brevity's sake, of something unessential. The narrative has since been severely abridged to bring it within magazine limits.

In reading this diary one is much charmed with its constant understatement of romantic and perilous incidents and conditions. But the original penciled pages show that, even in copying, the strong bent of the writer to be brief has often led to the exclusion of facts that enhance the interest of exciting situations, and sometimes the omission robs her own heroism of due emphasis. I have restored one example of this in a foot-note following the perilous voyage down the Mississippi.