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Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas

Name: Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas
ISBN: 9781611215892

Including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape Overland to Liberated Shreveport, 1864-1865

W. F. Oscar Federhen,

Jeaninne Surette Honstein,

Steven A. Knowlton,

168 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas

Including the Red River Campaign, Imprisonment at Camp Ford, and Escape Overland to Liberated Shreveport, 1864-1865

W. F. Oscar Federhen,

Jeaninne Surette Honstein,

Steven A. Knowlton,

About this book

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Federhen wrote this lively memoir shortly after the war, but it remained unpublished until Jeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton carefully transcribed and annotated his manuscript.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.

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