 Prisoners
of the Civil War
The Story
of Two Americans
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By Douglas Westfall --
50 Letters, 3 Prisons, & the 1st Powered Submarine
of the Civil War
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A First Person Account of America's History --


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Imprisoned and coerced to become
a Confederate, a decorated Union Naval Officer stops the Union
fleet with a steam-powered submarine, only to again become a
Prisoner of the Civil War. |
Prisoners
of the Civil War
The Story of Two
Americans
By Douglas
Westfall
7 x 8 Hardcover
165 Pages - 160 Illustrations
-- 50 Transcripts from the 1860s --
Based upon two first person accounts
50 Unpublished Photos from 1860s
ISBN: 978-1891030-21-5
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Over 50
Transcripts from the 1860s
Written from 3 different prisons, and the Story of the
-- 1st Powered Submarine --
In this book you will find the text
from 50 transcripts taken from the Civil War letters of two men.
Their time
in prison is from which they mostly wrote and they did so
from opposite sides and from opposite prisons. You'll also see
the original drawings for the 1st Powered Submarine of the Civil War,
full-size stereo views of the time, and copies of the original
letters.
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The CSS David Steam Powered Submarine. Glassell
Memoir, Page 53
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This is Douglas
Westfall, and I write and publish books on America's History. I
write to constantly keep you in touch with the characters in my
book -- only they're not characters -- they are a real people of
our history. These are Books that Change America's History.

The Story
of Two Americans
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Steam Powered Submarine --
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Resignation from Lt. William Glassell,
Dec. 4, 1861.

Letter from
Sgt. William Clayton,
August 22, 1862. |
Back in 1997, I had helped donate to
the Redlands Library, postcards and letters written by an
officer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. I then discovered
the letters and a journal of William Clayton, a Union enlistee
who fought at the battle of Vicksburg in 1963 alongside my
great-grandfather. There just wasn't enough in his story to
produce the kind of book I wanted on the American Civil War. It
would have been too one sided and not realistic of our history.
I wanted more.
In the summer of 2001 I was in The
Orange Library and History Center. I live in Orange, CA., and
chair the board of the Library. I knew that the founder of our
town, William Glassell, had been in the Civil War, but was not
aware of his service: He was the first person to Captain a
submarine in an act of war -- ever. His ship, a steam
powered submarine 54 feet long, was known as the CSS David. In
finding his letters and memoirs, I soon realized his
contribution to America's history, as a Confederate officer.
These two caches of letters written
essentially from prisons, gave the title to this book, which was
released at the end of 2001. |
Tens of thousands of photographs were
taken during the Civil War, many by professionals.
Photographs for this book were collected from dozens of
collections, both private and public. Maps came from Victorian
era text books, charts and line drawings from period magazines &
newspapers, including Leslie's, Harper's and more. All the
stereo views came from a collection I had received over 30 years
before the book was ever published.
USS Paunee, taken in
Charlston Harbor.
Matthew Brady wet Collodion plate. Page 47 |

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Maps came from war books, hand drawn
maps of Civil War Battles, archives, and chart records. Some came from a book
given to me by my grandmother, a school teacher in the late
1800s. The Chautauqua Course of American History, was something
her mother had taught -- and she came from Chautauqua, NY. The
Chautauqua Summer Schools, traveled all over America, to teach
the children in the farmlands.
Map of Washington DC &
Richmond area.
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Line art as well came from varied
sources, many of the ships came from the set of The Naval
History of the United States, printed in 1898. Some came
from other Civil War fortresses such as Ft. Warren on St.
Georges Island in Boston Harbor, Ft. Delaware on the Delaware
River, and Fort Point, in San Francisco.
The book was published by the end of
the year and released both as a printed book and as an Ebook.
One fellow in Russia, later thanked me for the Ebook version as
at the time, he would never have been able to get it.
Barbette Guns of Ft.
Lafayette.
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The Story
of Two Americans
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The 1st Powered Submarine of the Civil War--
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each purchase of Prisoners of the Civil War, Stereo
Glasses to see the Stereo Views of the prisons and more
of the American Civil War. Stereo glasses are
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Imprisoned and coerced to become
a Confederate, a decorated Union Naval Officer stops the Union
fleet with a steam-powered submarine, only to again become a
Prisoner of the Civil War. |
Prisoners
of the Civil War
The Story of Two
Americans
By Douglas
Westfall
7 x 8 Hardcover
165 Pages - 160 Illustrations
-- 50 Transcripts from the 1860s --
Based upon two first person accounts
50 Unpublished Photos from 1860s
ISBN: 978-1891030-21-5
-- The Complete Ebook is Available --
EBook
Both Printed &
EBook
-- Instant Book
Buy * --
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Yet Available -- |
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