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This date in Michigan History:   February 9, 1864
Lieutenant Colonel William McCreery escapes from Libby Prison.

In one of the Civil War's great prison escapes, William McCreery of Flint was one of many Union officers who tunneled their way out of the famed rebel prison. McCreery, who entered service in May 1861 as a sergeant in the Second Michigan Infantry, eventually resigned his commission on account of the many wounds he received during the war.

 
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