Talk:Libby Prison escape

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Staff?
Since the Confederates believed the building inescapable, the staff considered their job relatively easy.
 * Presumably this refers to the Confederate guards. Valetude (talk) 08:32, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Alternative Account of the Libby Prison escape.
I have a published account of the Libby Prison escape that differs with the account given here.

In doing genealogy research I was reading "History of the Indiana Fifty-first Regiment". The account the escape from Libby Prison given by this source attributes leadership to Col. A. Streight of the Indiana 51st as head of a council of 5. While the essential details of the prison break, which I presume where published soon after the actual prison break are the same. There are some details following the break-out that are different from the present Wikipedia article.

Sample from the source cited above" The tunnel was about sixty feet in length.  the diameter being just large enough for a large sized man to go easily through; though in on place, where it curved around a rock, it was smaller.  The time consumed in digging was about three weeks.  When it was about half completed, a small hole was dug up to the surface of the street, in order to ascertain whether the tunnel was going exactly in the right direction. . . . Colonel Streight was one of the first to go out that night.  When he came to the curve around the rock, he stuck fast, and had to be pulled back, take off his clothes and draw them through after him with a string."

"Colonel Streight and Capt. Will Scearce were joined by Major McDonald and Lieut. Sterling of the 101st Ohio. Coming up out of the tunnel inside of the old stable back of Carr's warehouse, they went through an arched gate to Canal Street, passed around the building within a few feet of the sentinels, and proceeded according to the direction of Mrs. Green."

These excerpts are verbatim from the book. I am willing to summarize the account from the book, if it could be included in the article as an alternative story.

One reason this is of interest to me is the Will Scearce mentioned is the brother of one of my direct ancestors.

L1ndaLibby (talk) 20:24, 7 July 2020 (UTC)