. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TART 1PHIS O N S SOLDIERS WHOESCAPED. THOMAS E. ROSE THE FEDERAL COLONEL WHO TUNNELED OUT OF LIBBY IN 1864 ESCAPES FROM PRISON By Holland Thompson I never knew any man to make a correct calculation of the time ofa tunnels completion. But you can always conclude, when its engineersdeclare positively that it will be done in two days, that it will still re-quire some finishing strokes at the close of a week. . The truthis, that the operators are so anxious to finish a tunnel that they calculatetheir capacity for performance, even with
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TART 1PHIS O N S SOLDIERS WHOESCAPED. THOMAS E. ROSE THE FEDERAL COLONEL WHO TUNNELED OUT OF LIBBY IN 1864 ESCAPES FROM PRISON By Holland Thompson I never knew any man to make a correct calculation of the time ofa tunnels completion. But you can always conclude, when its engineersdeclare positively that it will be done in two days, that it will still re-quire some finishing strokes at the close of a week. . The truthis, that the operators are so anxious to finish a tunnel that they calculatetheir capacity for performance, even with their wretched implements, bythe intensity of their desire.—Junius Henri Browne, in Four Years inSecessia. NEXT to the hope of being exchanged, which became al-most an obsession with all prisoners confined for anylength of time, the idea of escape was perhaps prisoners would ever acknowledge that they had everseen a beautiful jail, and no sooner had they been confinedthan they began to lay plans for escape. Some of these plans were exceedingly ingenious. Oc-casionally, citiz
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