Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
Thirteen Months in Dixie tells a rollicking tale of adventure, captivity, hardship, and heroism during the last year of the Civil War--in the protagonist's own words. After being hidden away for…
Specifikacia Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
Thirteen Months in Dixie tells a rollicking tale of adventure, captivity, hardship, and heroism during the last year of the Civil War--in the protagonist's own words. After being hidden away for decades as a family heirloom, the incredible manuscript is finally available, annotated and illustrated, for the first time.Oscar Federhen was a new recruit to the 13th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery, when he shipped out to Louisiana in the spring of 1864 to participate in the Red River Campaign. Not long after his arrival at the front, a combination of ill-luck and bad timing led to his capture. Federhen was marched overland to Tyler, Texas, where he was held as a prisoner of war in Camp Ford, the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi River.Thirteen Months in Dixie recounts Federhen's always thrilling and occasionally horrifying ordeals