Details
Contributor Pollock, Charles, 1828-1900, publisher.
Title Libby Prison in war times [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : Charles Pollock
Date 1889
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; sheet 46 x 60 cm (18 x 23.5 in.)
Description View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate.
Notes Title from the item.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock.
Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Subject Libby Prison.
Military prisons -- Confederate States of Americas.
Prisoners of war -- Union -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Tents -- Virginia -- Richmond.
Geographic subject Confederate States of America.
Richmond (Va.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]
Accession number P.2011.45.6