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	Libby Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libby Prison was a Confederate Prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
		Because of the high death toll, Libby Prison is generally regarded as second in notoriety only to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
		In 1864, the Union prisoners were moved to Macon, Georgia, and Libby Prison was then used for Confederate military criminals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libby_Prison (1360 words)

	Libby Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Libby Prison, 3 buildings all togethor, had not been designed as a prison.
		Other prisons are known for their death toll, but none could match the number of inmates Libby held.
		Libby was vacated just before the Union Army captured Richmond, and spent the reast of the war, empty.
	www.angelfire.com /oh/mycwpage/libby.html (272 words)

	Libby Prisoner of War Camp
		The west room was to be used as the quarters for prison officials, and the basement was divided into dungeons for the confinement and punishment of unruly prisoners.
		The prison was briefly used as the main hospital for all of Richmond's prisoners in the summer of 1862.
		Libby, serving as the headquarters for the Confederate States Military Prisons since the first of the year, 1863, was the depot prisoin to which all prisoners were brought before being transferred to other facilities in or outside the city.
	www.mycivilwar.com /pow/libby.htm (1510 words)

	prison — FactMonster.com
		From 1980 to 1990, the nation's federal and state prison population increased by 134% to 771,243 persons; by 2000 it was 1,381,892 persons, a 79% increase from 1990; an additional 689,794 persons were in local jails and juvenile detention centers.
		The chief types of prisons in the United States (with similar institutions in other countries) are the local jail, for pretrial detention and short sentences, and the state and federal penitentiaries, for convicts with long sentences.
		Libby Prison - Libby Prison, in Richmond, Va., a Confederate prison for captured Union officers in the American...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0840179.html (537 words)

	Escape From Libby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Union Col. Thomas E. Rose of the 77th Pennsylvania was placed in Libby Prison after being captured at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863.
		Rather than endure the conditions in the prison, Rose planned to escape by tunneling from the cellar of the prison across a 50 foot wide vacant lot and up into a shed on the other side of a board fence bordering the lot.
		During the evening of February 9, while other prisoners were holding a musical show to mask the escape, Rose and his men went through the tunnel and disappeared into the streets of Richmond.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /PrisonsParolesAndPOWs/escapefromlibby.html (376 words)

	Tunnel Escape from Libby Prison
		Escapes from southern prisons were frequent occurrences, but in the history of them there is not one that compares with this in the conception of the project, the working of its details, and the number of men that gained their liberty.
		I borrowed a knife from Lieut.-Colonel Miles and one night when nearly all the prisoners were sleeping I carefully moved one of the stoves aside, and with the aid of the knife dug the mortar from the bricks.
		He was a prisoner at Libby at the time of the escape, and was personally acquainted with many of his comrades that participated in it.
	richmondthenandnow.com /Tunnel-Escape-from-Libby-Prison.html (3105 words)

	The Libby Prison History
		Libby was a native of Maine and with the outbreak of war, since most of his business was with Northern ships, he closed down the operation.
		The removal of Libby from Richmond to Chicago was a project never before equaled in the history of building moving and one that was not to be surpassed for many years later.
		The enterprise was incorporated as the Libby Prison Museum Association, T/A GREAT LIBBY PRISON WAR MUSEUM, on 4 February 1888, with a capitalization of $400, 000, to which was added the extensive Civil War collection of Charles F. Gunther, a wealthy candy manufacturer.
	www.newjersey1861.com /libbyhistory.html (1775 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE SELLING of LIBBY PRISON
		Prisoners held at Libby—over the course of the war there were forty-five thousand of them—complained vociferously during the conflict and afterward of hunger, brutal treatment and theft by their captors, winter cold and damp, and close confinement in overcrowded quarters.
		Of Libby’s most famous episode, the escape in 1864 of more than a hundred inmates through an underground passage that they had dug, there was a reminder in the form of a hole in the wall labeled the tunnel entrance, though not in the same location as the original.
		When the Coliseum was eventually torn down in 1982, Libby’s much-traveled facade made one final journey, across town to the historical society, to come to rest amid the memorabilia it had once housed and in the proper hands at last.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1994/7/1994_7_114.shtml (1650 words)

	Capture & Prisons
		As was the case for many prisoners of war, both Confederate and Union, James was moved from one prison to another at a brief moment's notice.
		The Libby Prison, located on 20th and Carey Streets, was formerly designated as Libby and Son Ship Chandlers and Grocers.
		The prison was formerly a cotton factory known as Maxwell Chambers Factory located in Rowan County.
	www.andersonvillediary.com /prison_experiences.htm (732 words)

	Libby Prison
		Post-war stereoview of Libby Prison by Anderson and Co, Richmond, Va.
		5/5/1864; 12,268 Yankee prisoners in all the CSA; 1,943 are at Libby
		3/3/1865; attendant at the Libby Prison hospital is caught at the theater with one of the POWs from the prison hospital.
	www.mdgorman.com /Prisons/Libby/libby_prison.htm (6286 words)

	LIBBY PRISON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By 1863 men were sleeping in squads, lined up on their sides to save space, turning only on the order of an elected leader.
		Prisoners complained of short rations, cold, and lice, yet many were able to buy extra provisions and receive packages from home.
		"Libby's notoriety survived the war, and in 1889 the building was dismantled and re-erected in Chicago as a tourist attraction.
	members.tripod.com /beag27/libby.html (260 words)

	Chicago Historical Society Northwestern University Wet With Blood
		Libby Prison War Museum, views from exterior and interior of perimeter wall, c.
		The warehouse was subsequently occupied by Luther Libby, a ship chandler and grocer, who was given forty-eight hours to vacate the premises when the Confederates appropriated it as a prison during the early years of the war.
		ichmond was a Confederate prison center during the war, and the Libby warehouse served as a reception area for prisoners assigned to several tobacco warehouses along the canal.
	www.chicagohs.org /wetwithblood/bloody/LIBBY/Libby2.htm (638 words)

	Libby Prison - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Libby Prison, Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, in a three-story brick warehouse owned by the tobacco company Libby and Son and containing...
		Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980), American chemist and Nobel laureate, who developed the carbon-14 dating method.
		Prison, institution designed to securely house people who have been convicted of crimes.
	encarta.msn.com /Libby_Prison.html (127 words)

	Various Prisoners
		The cry is all the time that "the Yankee prisoners are eating up all the provisions, and there are citizens starving for want of them." Wood is now $30 per cord, and very scarce at that, corn $15 per bushel, candles $1 a piece, and the meanest kind at that.
		Barrett, of the 89th Ohio, prisoners at Richmond, Va., stating that the boxes of provisions recently sent them from this county came safely to hand, and were delivered to them by the rebel authorities.
		At Andersonville our prisoners’ regular rations consisted of about 1 quart of coarse meal per day, to each man, made by grinding corn and cob together, and so coarse that before using it had to be sifted, which reduced the quantity about one-half.
	www.89thohio.com /Prisoners/prisoner1.htm (10298 words)

	The Horrors of Libby Prison
		The prisoners were brought down to the ground floor where they were given a double ration and spent the night.
		They had to return to Libby prison where all the prisoners who were to be released on parole were locked up on the ground floor.
		The prisoners went down one of the stairways, filed to the starboard side, entered a room in the front of the boat, got their ration, went out by another door and went up the other stairway.
	www.i-kirk.info /2nd14th/civilwar.html (5458 words)

	Scooter and the Neocons: The Libby Indictment
		Libby did not lie, commit perjury, and obstruct justice for no reason.
		Libby lied to the grand jury in order to protect this conspiracy.
		Unless America has lost its soul, Libby's indictment is the first step in the unravelling of a criminal conspiracy of high treason.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/november2005/011105neocons.htm (805 words)

	Guide to the Libby Prison Inmate Letter, 1864
		Permission to publish from the Libby Prison Inmate Letter, 1864, MS 113, must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
		The Libby Prison Inmate Letter of 1864 was purchased and received in 1972.
		The writer describes his failing health after several months as a general prisoner of war followed by the deprivations of close confinement, and his fears that without release he will not survive; he closes ‘With Great Respect,’ but his signature is missing from the torn lower edge of the page.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/ricewrc/00099/00099-P.html (188 words)

	Charleston Light and Gas Company signed by William Libby (Libby Prison) - South Carolina 1859
		Libby Prison was located in Richmond, Virginia, in a building, which was incorrectly called a tobacco warehouse.
		The prisoners cooked their own rations with inadequate fuel, the rations furnished were inadequate, and there was a shortage of clothing and blankets.
		Of those who died at Libby, 6,276 are buried in a cemetery in Henrico County southeast of Richmond, two miles from the city and one and a half miles from the James River.
	www.scripophily.net /chliandgas3s.html (644 words)

	Salisbury Confederate Prison
		A photocopy of the Salisbury Prison section of this work is in the Salisbury Prison file of the Salisbury Confederate Prison Materials, MSS 9060, Rowan Public Library.
		Connecticut volunteers gives his account of life in the prison including the story of a failed escape attempt, along with a detailed physical description of the facility.
		The story is given as told to his granddaughter, and notes conditions of the prison, the tunnels, and an escape attempt.
	www.lib.co.rowan.nc.us /HistoryRoom/prison/bibpersonal.htm (1819 words)

	Columbia Military Prison
		A prison in name only, it was an open field, a five-acre track of cleared ground without walls, fences, buildings, a ditch, or any other facilities.
		With rumors rife regarding a raid on Columbia, on 12 Feb 1865, Colonel C H Forno requested advise as to the course to be adopted for the security of the 1,200 Federal officers, prisoners of war, in the Asylum prison.
		In the face of Sherman's forces, a prison was being constructed at Killian's Mills, eleven miles from Columbia, on the Charlotte Railroad.
	www.geocities.com /cmp_csa/index.html (1791 words)

	Libby Prison, 2001 East Cary Street, Richmond, c.1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That building and the two adjoining it were converted into a prison that was dark, dirty, unheated, and poorly ventilated and sanitized.
		"Libby Prison" became infamous because in the 32,000 square feet of its eight rooms that were used to hold prisoners, as many as 1,200 Union officers were confined at a time.
		In 1888, businessmen in Chicago purchased Libby Prison and removed it there, to be venerated and viewed as a relic of the late war.
	www.vahistorical.org /lva/libby.htm (187 words)

	Libby Civil War Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The most famous prison of the Civil War was located in Richmond, Virginia, on the western half of a block bounded by Cary and Dock Streets at 20th.
		Captain Luther Libby leased the west building on 3 year terms from the Enders family and erected the now renowned sign, L. Libby was a native of Maine and with the outbreak of war, since most of his business was with Northern ships, he closed down the operation.
		These stones now form part of the wall of the Chicago Coliseum and probably are the basis for the false story that that structure is built from Libby Prison remains.
	www.censusdiggins.com /prison_libby.html (1446 words)

	CP Article
		Since publication of Prisoners' Mail from the American Civil War (1), I have had occasion to speak to various groups interested in subjects dealing with the aspects of what many still call "the late unpleasantness." Among the things that I always try to stress are the facts that "mail" took a variety of forms.
		As seen in Figure 1, the cover is addressed to Lt. W.W. Glazier, Prisoner of War, Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. The postmark is that of Troy, N.Y., dated December 19, 1863, with a 3c 1861 tied to the envelope by a grid cancel.
		Because the officers felt sympathy for the raiders, they cut a hole in the floor, through which they were able to communicate and to pass a portion of their rations.
	www.jlkstamps.com /csa/archives/hole.htm (1205 words)

	Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Scooter Libby: What May Be Going on...
		Thrasymahkhos: If Libby were charged with substantive violations, then Libby's lawyers would demand to see classified documents as part of preparing his defense, the judge would have no choice but to agree, the White House would cite national security and refuse to turn the documents over, and the judge would dismiss the charges.
		If Libby tries to give up Rove or Cheney but just has one-on-one conversations to relate, than once again Libby has tough luck and spends a long time in prison: no prosecutor would think that he can convict on the word of a confessed perjurer without corroborating evidence.
		Libby is convicted and jailed, but Bush faces a truly sticky problem in attempting to pardon him.
	delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/02/scooter_libby_w.html (1946 words)

	Libby Prison Breakout
		For information on Libby Prison in general, please visit the Libby Prison page.
		Morgan's visit to Libby and begins description of the Libby tunnel and says he was one of the diggers.
		Description of the digging and escape through the Libby tunnel; notes that he was one of the ones who raised the cry of "guards!" to get the crowd to thin out.
	www.mdgorman.com /Prisons/Libby/libby_prison_breakout.htm (530 words)

	Emory Civil War Guide
		In his diary, he writes of the high prison mortality rate, escape attempts, rumors concerning transfers or prisoner exchanges, the weather, and construction of barracks and stockades at the prison.
		Hoster later was involved in a prisoner exchange in Wilmington, North Carolina.See EUCLID record for a more detailed collection description.
		A paroled prisoner pass was issued to Private J. Oxford at Appomattox Courthouse on April 10, 1865.
	marbl.library.emory.edu /Guides/guides-cw/prisons.html (1840 words)

	Civil War Information Related to Family History
		I became interested in the Civil War prison camps when during my research of family history I found that My Great Grandfather was held prisoner at both Point Lookout (May-August, 1864) and then transferred to Elmira, New York.
		He was captured at the 2nd battle of the Wilderness on May 5th or 8th, 1864 and remained at Elmira until his release on June 14, 1865.
		Prison camps were setup in warehouses, military training camps, old forts, factories, local city jails, state penitentiaries were also used on occasion, even a church was pressed into service.
	home.jam.rr.com /rjcourt52/cwprisons/civilw.htm (371 words)

	Decoded: Scooter Libby's Coded Prison Letter To Judith Miller @ Blogcritics.org
		Based on Miller's recent testimony, it appears Libby was her source.
		He is trying to tell Miller she is in the same class as the other reporters (wink, wink) --i.e., he did not leak the information to her.
		Libby is unlikely to send Miller anything that stupidly written, and it would serve no purpose if he did.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/10/02/124446.php (1573 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Libby Prison Museum, located in Chicago, Illinois, displayed a large collection of Civil War artifacts from 1889 ot 1899.
		Here are some further images related to the Libby Prison Museum, the history of museums, and the history of Chicago:
		View of the Libby Prison from the James River, Richmond, Virginia
	home.uchicago.edu /~khannafo/LibbyWebPage.html (185 words)

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