An Account of the Escape of Six Federal Soldiers from Prison at Danville, Va.

by W. H. Newlin

AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
Escape of Six Federal Soldiers
FROM PRISON AT DANVILLE, VA.:

Their Travels by Night

THROUGH

THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY TO THE UNION PICKETS

AT GAULEY BRIDGE, WEST VIRGINIA,

IN THE WINTER OF 1863-64.

BY

W. H. NEWLIN,

Lieutenant Seventy-Third Illinois Volunteers.