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From Wondery, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American History Tellers, Our History, Your Story.

As we heard in the first episode of this series, during the Civil War, the Confederacy sent captured union officers to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia.

Formerly a warehouse complex, this prison sat along the James River in the Confederacy's capital.

Around a thousand prisoners of war languished in unsanitary and overcrowded rooms.

The men dreamed of escape while they suffered terribly from cold, hunger, lice, vermin,

and the whims of a sadistic commandant and his guards.

But in February 1864, Libby Prison became the site of the largest escape in U.S. history, with 109 men desperately trying to make it to Union lines. My guest today has spent a

great deal of time researching who they were and how they tunneled out. Dr. Robert P. Watson is a

distinguished professor of history at Lynn

University. He's the author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison

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