Libby Prison

a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, in which Union soldiers were confined. It was originally a tobacco warehouse situated on an island in the James River. The Union soldiers tell many a tale of cruelty and privation. The Confederate authorities maintain that their own men in the ranks were too poorly fed and clothed to justify more liberal provisions for prisoners. At the time of the World's Fair the old prison was torn down and carried to Chicago, where it was set up as a war museum. See Richmond