By Daniel Avery Langworthy Late Captain 85th N. Y. Vol. Infantry With Illustrations   Byron Printing Company Minneapolis, Minn. 1915 Copyright 1915 by Daniel Avery Langworthy AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND AND COMRADE ELL TORRANCE PAST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC...

Soon after my escape from captivity and my arrival at the home of my father-in-law, at Elmira, New York, where my good wife was, my sister Sarah, who was older than myself, and her husband, came to see me. She sat down by my side and said: "Now Daniel, tell me all about it. How you were captured, how treated while a prisoner of war, how you made your escape and worked your way from Columbia, South Carolina, to Elmira." She held me to a strict account until she had the full story. I then told her

Before the Civil War I was a young physician in New York city, had been brought up a strong Whig and fully believed that slavery was entirely wrong. After the beginning of the war I felt it my duty to go and help and thought that the privates, the men who carried and used rifles were what was wanted; hence I went to Elmira, New York, and enlisted on September 10th, 1861, in the Eighty-fifth New York Regiment, which regiment was being recruited in Allegany County in the locality where my father l