During the winter of 1863-1864; 1;200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in Richmond's Libby Prison; known as "The Bastille of the South." On February 9; 109 of those officers wriggled through a fifty-five-foot tunnel to freedom. After an all-out Rebel manhunt; survivors reached Washington; and their testimony spurred far-reaching investigations into the treatment of Union prisoners.Libby Prison Breakout tells the largely unknown story of the most important escape of the Civil War from a Confederate prison; one that ultimately increased the North's and South's willingness to use prisoners in waging "total war."
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