The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor Prison; : containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the late war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the Treaty of Ghent. : Also, a particular detail of all occurrences relative to that horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815. / The whole carefully compiled from the journal of Charles Andrews, a prisoner in England, from the commencement of the war, until the release of all the prisoners. ; [Five lines from Virgil in Latin and English].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Charles (Prisoner of war)

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 33869.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dartmoor Prison.

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.

United States.

Genre:

Memoirs.

Physical Description:

vii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 10-283 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Printed for the author., 1815.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"Certificate. We, the undersigned, late prisoners of war ... having carefully perused and examined the following manuscript journal, kept by Charles Andrews ... do solemnly declare, that all matter and occurrences herein contained, are just and true, to the best of our knowledge and belief; and that this is the only journal kept at Dartmoor."--p. [v]-vii.

Copyright Oct. 30, 1815 by Philip R. Hopkins.

Frontispiece has caption: View of Dartmoor Prison.

Last page blank.

Includes, p. 252-280, names of American prisoners at the various prisons in England, who entered British service, died or escaped.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 33869).

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