amazing-exploit

Updated: July 4, 2026

The guards were not to be disturbed, and the evasion would not be known until eight o'clock, when the miserable breakfast ration was distributed. Of that amazing-exploit, the digging through twenty solid feet of earth and stone, I do not propose to tell. It is to be found in the journals of the day: it is contained in the hundred pathetic narratives of the men who took part.

Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan - The Iron Game: A Tale of the War