Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — Relic of the War. [ARTICLE]

Relic of the War.

Laborers employed in a sewer at Danville, Va., the other day struck a tunnel which is said to be one dug at the time of the war by federal prisoners confined in an old factory which stood on the corner of Spring and Union streets, and through which eighteen of the prisoners made their escape. It is just large enough for a man to crawl through.