Sabre, G. E., Nineteen Months a Prisoner of War. The American News Company, 1865.
Swanberg, W. A., First Blood. Charles Scribners Sons, 1957.
Tourtellotte, Jerome, Windham County Boys in the Seventh Connecticut, A History of Company K. 1910.
Trumbull, H. Clay, The Knightly Soldier. John D. Wattles, 1892.
Other
In addition to the books listed on p. 187, use was made of the letters of Captain V. B. Chamberlain, written during his imprisonment in Richland Jail. Transcripts of these letters were lent me by Captain Chamberlain’s son, Rodman W. Chamberlain. Microfilm copies of these transcripts are now on file at the South Caroliniana Library in Columbia, South Carolina.
Rodman W. Chamberlain’s unpublished paper, entitled “The Return of the Sword,” furnished the information used in the epilogue.
The circumstances of Captain Chamberlain’s capture and escape have been reconstructed as accurately as possible, but the character of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford, Chamberlain’s counterpart, is entirely fictional, as are most of the characters in this book.
The Confederate Captain Chichester lived and fought at Fort Wagner. The Union officers, General Strong and Colonel Rodman, lived and fought on Morris Island.
Captain Senn, Commandant of the Post Guard at Richland Jail, and Corporal “Bull Head” Addison were real people. They have been represented as they were described by men who were imprisoned in Richland Jail in Columbia, S. C. The original Richland Jail no longer stands, but the author has constructed it from descriptions of prisoners and the drawings of Major Henry Ward Camp, Captain Chamberlain’s companion in escape. Major Camp was killed in action in 1864.