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Library of Congress1865

Ten months in Libby Prison.

Caption title. Reprinted from Bulletin of the United States Sanitary Commission, March 1865. Also available in digital form. LAC snh 2019-05-30 update (1 card) LAC ael 2021-08-31 update (1 card)

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Library of Congress1865

Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, information in relation to the list of names of state or political prisoners required to be furnished to the judges of the circuit and district courts of the United States and the District of Columbia by the 2d section of the act of March 3, 1863, entitled, "An Act Relating to Habeas Corpus, and Regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases." February 21, 1865. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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Library of Congress1866

Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the punishment of traitors; the total abolition of slavery; approving the measures of the administration of Abraham Lincoln; thanks to the soldiers for their patriotism, and the aid societies, sanitary and Christian commissions; and denouncing the treatment of Union soldiers in rebel prisons. January 5, 1866. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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Library of Congress1876

In the Senate of the United States. July 5, 1876. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Mitchell submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 973.) The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Elizabeth Carson, praying compensation for subsistence furnished to prisoners confined in the Bourbon County jail, in Kentucky, by order of the military authorities of the United States, from August, 1862, to the latter part of 1865, having considered the same, beg leave to report

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Library of Congress1880

Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc.

The writer was captured at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864, and subsequently confined at Libby, Macon, Savannah and Charleston. He escaped in October, and the greater part of the book is devoted to his adventures in reaching the Union lines. Also available in digital form.

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