Adrift in Dixie: A Yankee Officer Among the Rebels

"Do with it as you like. We owe my brother's life to the Negroes; and you can publish his journal, if you think it will do them any good."

This is one of the best true accounts of the kinds of aid given to escaped Union soldiers during the American Civil War by African-American slaves at the risk of their lives.

Writer Edmund Kirke had just finished reading this account of a young Union officer's escape from imprisonment in the Confederate south and had told the author's brother that the work...