North by night
Peter Burchard
Hardcover
(Coward-McCann, March 15, 1962)
SYNOPSIS: "Civil War novel for young readers, about a young Union prisoner who escapes from a Confederate jail in South Carolina, with a friend, and sets out on a long arduous journey to his home in Connecticut. This story opens on St. Helena Island in July 1863. Based on the life of Captain V. B. Chamberlain of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry who was sent to South Carolina in October 1861 to occupy the islands along the coast and establish a base for military operations against the City of Charleston. The first charge on Fort Wagner is described in this historical novel."