Seven Months a Prisoner: A Yankee Lieutenant in Rebeldom

His horse shot from under him, badly hurt from impact with a tree and unconscious, Lt. Hadley was left on the battlefield of the Wilderness, considered mortally wounded.

When he awoke, he and his friend Homer Chisman were Confederate prisoners. In this true story from the American Civil War, you'll read Hadley's and Chisman's dangerous exploits as they escape, are recaptured, and escape again.

As with many Union escapees, they are helped along the way by southern African-Americans at the risk...