West facade, Michigan League

(Negative No. 30330

An account of the escape of six federal soldiers from prison at Danville, Va.: their travels by night through the enemy's country to the Union pickets at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, in the winter of 1863-64.

The other escaping prisoners were L. B. Smith, 4th Mich. cav.; W. Siutherland, 16th U. S. inf.; W. C. Trippe, 16th U. S. inf.; J. F. Wood, 26th Ohio inf.; R. G. Taylor, 2d Mass. cav.