Manuscripts

How a Confederate officer escaped from Prison : Scenes in New Orleans during the summer of the last year of the war

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Description: 1920s copy of Wilkinson's reminiscences about his escape from the Union prison submitted to the Philadelphia Weekly Times, probably between 1887 and 1890.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1924.
Call number: mssHM 69430
Creator: Wilkinson, Joseph B (1845-1915)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Betty Evans and Barbara E. Hall, May 6, 1998.
Dimensions: 31 cm
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