Captured by Pickets of the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment while in a small boat heading to Fort Pulaski, Yankee Captain Levi Crowell and his crew spent five months in Confederate prisons. His diaries and letters provide us a fascinating insight into how a simple merchant ship captain from Cape Cod became an Acting Master of a Union ship and was embroiled in the Civil War. Moved from Savannah to Atlanta and then to Madison GA, we are provided his personal account of his capture and life as a Confederate prisoner.

This first-person account has been enhanced with the addition of never-before published pictures, letters, correspondence with Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy and other contemporary material. Following his return to civilian life as a Merchant Ship Master, we are treated to his excellent account of his voyages and travails as he commanded a number of vessels, including the Jacob Haskell which made numerous trips across the Atlantic, to South America and the islands.