Prison Bride and Exchange Plot at Libby Prison
In Libby Prison Captain Cox and Ralph Hunt share despair and bravado as Union and Confederate officers discuss fate. Marie Mason visits secretly to arrange a prisoner exchange with General Winder, risking peril to secure six captives for release.
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Colonel Coggswell
Forty Second New York
Tammany Regiment
New York City
Bedloe
Kentucky
Hart
Indiana
Cox
Cogrswell
Ralph Hunt
Coggswell
Deacon Hart
Colonel Coggeswell
Warner
Marie
Tom
General Winder
Richmond
Libby Prison
Confederate hostage draft in Richmond confrontation
General Winder announces that six Union officers will be chosen as hostages to be treated as Union captives in retaliation for a Confederate cruiser seizure. Names drawn include Major Paul Revere and several others. Captain Ralph Hunt offers to take Hunt's place as a sick man, as Marie Mason bursts in with a scream.
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Paul Revere
Thirtieth Massachusetts
Winder
Richmond
Lincoln
Ralph Hunt
General Winder
Cox
Warner
Thirtieth
Massachusetts
Alfred Wood
New York
Marie Mason
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