Most comprehensive description with contemporary illustrations, among them a reproduction of the best contemporary engraving of Libby Prison in Richmond, Va.
Louis Palma di Cesnola, Ten Months in Libby Prison. [Pamphlet, no place, no date]. [New York, 1865].
Description of prison life in Libby prison, 1863-1864.
Isaac N. Johnston, Four Months in Libby, and the Campaign against Atlanta. Cincinnati: J. N. Johnston, 1864.
A. O. Abbott, Prison Life in the South at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, during the Years 1864 and 1865. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1865.
Description of the life in Libby Prison by a former prisoner, on pp. 22-41.
Cullen B. (“Doc”) Aubery, Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865; His Capture and Confinement in Libby Prison. [Milwaukee, Wisc.: Doc Aubery, 1904].
Memoirs of Libby Prison and its commanders by a former prisoner of war.
United States Sanitary Commission, Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Boston: “Little’s Living Age,” 1865.
Official report of a commission of inquiry, with an appendix containing the testimony. See also Arthur C. Cole, The Irrepressible Conflict, 1850-1865 (A History of American Life, Vol. VII) (New York, 1934), pp. 322 f., 331 f.
W. S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington with Historical and Critical Notes. Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885, pp. 150 ff., especially No. 364, p. 154.
The present bibliography has been completed on April 1, 1945.
The author wishes gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of the American Numismatic Society (Mr. Sawyer Mc. A. Mosser, Librarian) and of the New York Historical Society (Mr. John T. Washburn, Chief of the Reading Room) in permitting him use of their collections, without which this study could never have been completed.
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