Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape

In the winter of 1864, Captain Daniel Avery Langworthy watched his regiment crumble at Plymouth, North Carolina, and found himself marching toward a fate worse than death: the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville. What follows is an unsentimental, minute-by-minute account of survival in a hell designed to erase dignity, where thousands of Union soldiers perished in overcrowding and neglect. But Langworthy was not content to simply endure. Within weeks of his arrival, he and a handful of fellow officers plotted an escape that would carry them through enemy territory, aided by risky kindnesses from hidden sympathizers. Their journey was a constant gamble, every mile a narrow escape from bloodhounds and cavalry. This is not romanticized war memoir. It is the raw, unflinching record of a man who refused to become a number in a stockade, who trusted strangers, and who measured freedom in footsteps through the swampy Georgia backcountry toward a line he wasn't certain he'd ever reach. For readers who want history not as dates and battles, but as lived human experience.