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 ...
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At 20th and Cary Streets stood the warehouse leased to Luther Libby in the 1860s. In 1861, the Confederacy seized the warehouse and used it for a prison. Thousands of Confederate officers were held at Libby Prison. In 1888, the building was purchased and rebuilt in Chicago as a museum. In 1893, the structure was a part of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. The Libby Prison in Chicago was demolished in 1900. The site in Richmond is part of the flood wall. There is a plaque commemorating the site...
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They have a plaque and a marker telling you about the site but it was torn down a...
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