Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW: Journal of J. Osborn Coburn (Don Allison - DLM) blood This book is arranged along

This book is arranged along a tour route that includes 30 featured venues

They so movingly responded

Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war

a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army

Three appendices address the nature of Buford’s defense at Gettysburg

Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW: Journal of J. Osborn Coburn (Don Allison - DLM) blood This book is arranged alongby Jacob Coburn & Don Allison Based on the journal of Sergeant Jacob Osborn Coburn, a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry who was captured at Charles Town, Virginia, Oct. 18, 1863, this firsthand account of the horrors of prison life was sent to his parents by a Union hospital steward after Coburn's death in a prison hospital in Richmond on March 8, 1864; a rare and valuable source for those interested in prison life. North & South, The Magazine of