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Title: A remarkable book. Now ready: Journal of Alfred Ely, a prisoner of war in Richmond Edited by Charles Lanman. 1 vol., 12mo, illustrated with a steel plate portrait of Alfred Ely, and a wood engraving of the prision at Richmond. Price, $1.00. This work gives a minute account of the adventures in Virginia of the Hon. Alfred Ely, member of Congress from New York, who was captured at the Battle of Bull Run, and confined at Richmond for more than five months as a prisoner of war
Description: The Journal of Alfred Ely was published in New York in 1862., The illustration, signed A.H. Jocelyn N.Y., bears the caption: The prison at Richmond., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 D Apple (2)5786.F.51d (McAllister)

Title: Caught at last!
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature depicting General George Meade pointing a gun at a Confederate general, depicted as a snake. The men stand near a sign labeled "To Richmond.", Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.11f]

Title: Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Card photographs of this far-famed Southern prison, for sale here 25 cents each. Copyright secured
Description: Printed on yellow card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Libby (2)5786.F.122a (McAllister)

Title: Libby Prison The only view of this notorious prison made during the Rebellion. Dick Turner stands in the foreground
Description: Exterior view of the notoriously inhumane Confederate Prison, previously a warehouse. Depicts Turner, the former commandant of the prison, standing with a small group of white people including a child, in front of rows of tents. African Americans look on from a nearby hill., Title from label mounted on verso., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by Levy & Cohen in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Forms part of small Civil War Photograph Collection, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish Philadelphia photographers who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Creator: Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - cdvs - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.2]

Title: Down the bay excursions 130 miles for $1.00. The new steamer Wawaset leaves the first wharf below Arch Street every morning, (Sundays excepted,) at 7 o'clock, for Bombay Hook & intermediate places on the river & bay. Returning--leaves the landing at 1 o'clock, reaching the city about dusk. A beautiful ride is here offered at a reasonable price. The boat passes quite near to Fort Delaware, giving a fine view of this famous fortification and the surrounding barracks, which now contain no less than 13,000 Rebel prisoners. Good meals provided on the boat!
Description: Printed on yellow paper., The illustration shows the steamer Wawaset., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Down (6)5777.F.1 (McAllister)

Title: Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!, or, The prisoner's hope Song and chorus
Description: "Words and music by Geo. F. Root."--p. [3], Publisher's plate #420-3., With advertisement for Mason & Hamlin cabinet organs and additional music on p. [2]; advertisement for Root's The musical curriculum on p. [6]; advertising matter varies with other copies., For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) for the refrain., First line of text: In the prison cell I sit., First line of refrain: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching., T.p. has title set within an oval, surrounded by various scenes of war illustrating 5 other Civil War song titles; signed: Copcutt -Williams sc., Library Company copy inscribed: Compliments of A.D., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895, cmp
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Tramp 8107.F.25

Title: Libby Prison in war times
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., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]

Title: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east
Description: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia, with the vast prison area surrounded by stockade fences. In the center are numerous prisoners and their hand-made housing, consisting of various fabrics and mounds of dirt. Guard towers surround the fence and guards, on foot, horseback, and in horse-drawn carts patrol. In the right, men, many of whom use canes or crutches and have amputated legs sit, lie down, or walk in a separate fenced area that has tents. Two cannon emplacements with soldiers are visible in the foreground. Several buildings and a train traveling down the railroad tracks are visible in the background. The prison operated from February 1864 until April 1865. It housed up to 45,000 Union prisoners in overcrowded conditions and had the highest death rate of all the Civil War prisons., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1890 by J.W. Morton, Jr., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Morton, J. W, Jr.
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.4]

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