Steve Knowlton presents: "Thirteen Months in Dixie, or the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas"

Steve Knowlton will share the wartime plight of Oscar Federhen, who was captured by the Confederates as a relatively new recruit and sent to—and later escaped from— POW Camp Ford, the largest Confederate-run prison west of the Mississippi.

Steve is a Librarian for History and African American Studies at Princeton University.  His historical research has been published in many peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of the annual William Marshall Wingfield Award from the West Tennessee Historical Society and has twice won the Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award. This is his first book.