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Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
W. F. Oscar Federhen
其他書名
Including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape Overland to Liberated Shreveport, 1864-1865
出版Savas Beatie, 2022-08-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / Military / United States
ISBN16112158979781611215892
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AMWAEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Union soldier recounts his capture and daring escape from a Texas POW camp in this rollicking Civil War memoir.

Oscar Federhen was a new recruit to the Union Army when he deployed to Louisiana as part of the Red River Campaign. Captured soon after his arrival at the front, Federhen was marched to Tyler, Texas, where he was held at Camp Ford, the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi.

The captured artillerist tried escaping several times, facing sadistic guards and vicious hounds, until he finally succeeded. Making his way through northeast Texas to reach Union lines, Federhen had to dodge regular Confederates, brigands, and even Comanches in his effort to get home. He rode for a time with Rebel irregular cavalry, during which he witnessed robberies and even cold-blooded murder. When he was recaptured and thought to be a potential deserter, he escaped yet again and continued his bid for freedom.

Federhen wrote this lively memoir shortly after the war, but it remained unpublished until Jeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton carefully transcribed and annotated his manuscript. With numerous illustrations, including two by Federhen himself, Thirteen Months in Dixie is a gripping true story and a valuable primary source about the lives of Civil War prisoners and everyday Texans during the conflict.