The Capture, the Prison Pen and the Escape: the Further Adventures of an Officer of Union Cavalry During the American Civil War

An intimate story of the American Civil War

Readers who are familiar with Leonaur's edition of 'Three Years in the Federal Cavalry' will know that it concerns the Civil War experiences of young Captain Willard Glazier of the 2nd New York Cavalry. Within its pages we join him in many marches, raids, skirmishes and battles up to and beyond the great collision between the North and the South at Gettysburg. This second volume of this intrepid young man's experiences takes up his story at this point. Shortly after his engagement with the enemy at Culpepper Court Hose and Liberty Mills, Glazier's luck ran out. At Buckland's Mill his horse was shot from beneath him and he was ridden over in a Confederate charge which knocked him senseless. On regaining consciousness he found himself in Confederate hands as a prisoner of war. Nearly a year of incarceration within Confederate prison camps followed together with a daring escape and bid for freedom. An essential chronicle of the war between the states. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket.