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Large Piece Wood from Libby Prison - Famous CSA Prison - w/ Civil War Period LOA
Large Piece Wood from Libby Prison - Famous CSA Prison - w/ Civil War Period LOA
Large Piece Wood from Libby Prison - Famous CSA Prison - w/ Civil War Period LOA

Large Piece Wood from Libby Prison - Famous CSA Prison - w/ Civil War Period LOA

$ 396

Availability: 36 in stock
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Conflict: Civil War (1861-65)

    Description

    LIBBY PRISON
    .  Libby Prison was one of the most notorious Confederate prisons in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War.  The building was originally a tobacco warehouse constructed by local merchant Fulton Libby in 1845.  By 1862, it was a filthy, vermin-infested, dank prison housing as many as twelve hundred Union soldiers in six rooms each no more than forty by one hundred feet.  Many prisoners died there of starvation and disease and those who survived suffered from poor health for the rest of their lives.
    LARGE PIECE OF WOOD FROM LIBBY PRISON, THE NOTORIOUS CONFEDERATE PRISON IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DURING THE CIVIL WAR
    Large piece of wood, measuring 3.25 by 2.25 by 0.5 inches, from Libby Prison and accompanied with a Civil War period note of provenance attached to the wood: “From Libby Prison, Richmond, VA.”  A piece of Libby Prison wood sold for ,250 at Signature House in August 2003.
    Museum of Fine Arts Boston.  Libby Prison.