Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1863
     Libby Prison housed more than a thousand Union army officers in crowded and unsanitary conditions. Both Union and Confederate soldiers suffered greatly in prison with close to 50,000 dying before the war ended.

  
Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, c. 1863

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