Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1904 — HIS ESCAPE FROM LIBBY PRISON [ARTICLE]

HIS ESCAPE FROM LIBBY PRISON

At the Brook S jldbra’ Re-union to be held on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, two Rensselaer old veterans are on the program for address :s at the Camp Fire, Wednesday evening. They are Capts. R. W. Marshall aud J. M. Wasson. The latter will relate the story of the celebrated esoapea from Libby prisou, by a tunnel, he being one of those who crawled out through the tunnel and, after several days of exciting adventures was recaptured by the Confederates. His story will be the great feature of the first day’s exeroises. Thursday’s great feature will bo a speech at 2.p. m. by Hon. 0. B. Landis, of Delphi