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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 ...
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 .
Pages in category "American Civil War prisoners of war held by the Confederate States of America" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly.
Record group: Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952 (National Archives Identifier: 494)Series: American Frontier Forts and Indians, "Carter Collection", compiled 1860 - 1900 (National Archives Identifier: 533452)
Brief Sketches of the Military Services, Escape from Libby Prison, How He Won a Medal of Honor, and Grand Army Record of Major Marion T. Anderson, Late of the 51st Indiana Vet. Vols. (Washington, DC: Gibson Brothers), 1897. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Scruggs was detained for alleged possession of a controlled substance, according to prison records. Scruggs died from a seizure secondary to left frontal lobectomy due to a traumatic brain injury (from a motor vehicle accident a decade prior), according to the medical examiner. Jail or Agency: St. Louis County - Dept. of Justice Services; State ...
Charles Cardwell McCabe – a POW and chaplain at Libby Prison during the American Civil War; John McCain – Republican nominee for president in 2008, POW for over five years in Vietnam; Olivier Messiaen – French composer; George Millar – journalist, British soldier, SOE agent, writer
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