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Book/Printed Material Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc

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Title

  • Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc

Names

  • Drake, J. Madison (James Madison), 1837-1913

Created / Published

  • New York, The Authors' publishing company, 1880.

Headings

  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
  • -  New Jersey Infantry.--9th Regt--1861-1865

Notes

  • -  The writer was captured at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864, and subsequently confined at Libby, Macon, Savannah and Charleston. He escaped in October, and the greater part of the book is devoted to his adventures in reaching the Union lines.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

Medium

  • x, [11]-310 p. incl. front., plates, ports. 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E611 .D76

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 02000420

OCLC Number

  • 1670873

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Drake, J. Madison. Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc. New York, The Authors' publishing company, 1880. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/02000420/.

APA citation style:

Drake, J. M. (1880) Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc. New York, The Authors' publishing company. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/02000420/.

MLA citation style:

Drake, J. Madison. Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc. New York, The Authors' publishing company, 1880. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/02000420/>.