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

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 f