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The Libby Prison escape was a prison escape from Libby Prison, a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia in February 1864 that saw over 100 Union prisoners-of-war escape from captivity. It was one of the most successful prison breaks of the American Civil War .
1865 photograph of Libby Prison. Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days battles (in which nearly 16,000 Union men and officers had been killed, wounded, or captured between June 25 and July 1 alone) and other conflicts of the ...
In the Libby Prison escape, during the American Civil War, over 109 Union POWs broke out of a building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia on the night between 9 and 10 February 1864. Fifty-nine of the 109 prisoners successfully made it back to the Union lines; two were drowned in the nearby James River , and forty-eight were recaptured.
November 1863 – Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary.; February 9 and 10, 1864 – Libby Prison escape.More than 100 Union prisoners broke out of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia.
Rose formed a group of 15 men to begin digging a tunnel to the sewer line at the prison at an unused storage basement room that was infested with rats. [4] Their tools consisted of meager supplies such as a table knifer, an auger, a chisel, a couple of spoons or even their bare hands as two men would take turns digging the tunnel each day. [ 4 ]
When Libby Prison was opened in Richmond, Van Lew was allowed to bring food, clothing, writing paper, and other things to the Union soldiers imprisoned there. She aided prisoners in escape attempts, passing them information about safe houses and getting a Union sympathizer appointed to the prison staff. [ 6 ]
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Through the years, he kept up with his fellow escapees through the Libby Tunnel Prison Association." [ 3 ] When he died in 1929, he was the last surviving member of the organization. [ 4 ] Captain Day was one of the leaders of an escape from Libby in February 1864 but was recaptured and sent to several Confederate Prisoner of War Camps in ...