Swanberg, W. A., _First Blood_. Charles Scribners Sons, 1957. Tourtellotte, Jerome, _Windham County Boys in the Seventh Connecticut_, A History of Company K. 1910. Trumbull, H. Clay, _The Knightly Soldier_. John D. Wattles, 1892. _Other_ In addition to the books listed on p. 187, use was made of the letters of Captain V. B. Chamberlain, written during his imprisonment in Richland Jail. Transcripts of these letters were lent me by Captain Chamberlain’s son, Rodman W. Chamberlain. Microfilm copies of these transcripts are now on file at the South Caroliniana Library in Columbia, South Carolina. Rodman W. Chamberlain’s unpublished paper, entitled “The Return of the Sword,” furnished the information used in the epilogue. The circumstances of Captain Chamberlain’s capture and escape have been reconstructed as accurately as possible, but the character of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford, Chamberlain’s counterpart, is entirely fictional, as are most of the characters in this book. The Confederate Captain Chichester lived and fought at Fort Wagner. The Union officers, General Strong and Colonel Rodman, lived and fought on Morris Island. Captain Senn, Commandant of the Post Guard at Richland Jail, and Corporal “Bull Head” Addison were real people. They have been represented as they were described by men who were imprisoned in Richland Jail in Columbia, S. C. The original Richland Jail no longer stands, but the author has constructed it from descriptions of prisoners and the drawings of Major Henry Ward Camp, Captain Chamberlain’s companion in escape. Major Camp was killed in action in 1864. Many of the incidents in the story are taken from history. The ladies of Charleston served coffee and food to Union prisoners, wanton stabbings of Union prisoners are matters of record, and the young woman in Columbia who lived across from Richland Jail and “whose heart beat for the Union” really lived and waved her handkerchief when the prisoners sang patriotic songs. The extent of Unionist sentiment in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee has not been exaggerated and there were plenty of women like “Missus” Flint. The descriptions of the map that Kate sent to Richland Jail were based on a map she might have copied, one published in 1861 by J. H. Colton, 172 William St., New York. This map was also used in verifying the spelling of the names of counties, towns, rivers etc. In most cases the spelling of the period has been used. _About the Author_ Peter Burchard is a professional writer and illustrator. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army Signal Corps as a radio operator on a troop transport in the North Atlantic. His first published drawings appeared in YANK Magazine. He graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art in 1947.