Danske Dandridge: 3 books

It is with no desire to excite animosity against a people whose blood is in our veins that we publish this volume of facts about some of the Americans, seamen and soldiers, who were so unfortunate as to fall into the hands of the enemy during the period of the Revolution. We have concealed nothing of the truth, but we have set nothing down in malice, or with undue recrimination.

THIS book is meant to serve as a chapter in the history of the American imagination. Consequently it undertakes to do more than to recount and criticize the work of eminent novelists, or of novelists whether eminent or mediocre; so far as space permits, it is a record of the national imagination as exhibited...

     CHAPTER III. — NAMES OF SOME OF THE PRISONERS OF 1776     CHAPTER IV. — THE PRISONS OF NEW YORK—JONATHAN GILLETT     CHAPTER V. — WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, THE PROVOST MARSHAL     CHAPTER VI. — THE CASE OF JABEZ FITCH     CHAPTER VII.