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Vol. IV, New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1922, p. 790 (anno 1769); cf.
Vol. V, 1926, pp. 1234 (1789); 1699 (Febr. 4, 1831).
Henry Collins Brown, Book of Old New York. New York: Privately printed,
1913.
Opposite p. 308, a good photograph of the Rhinelander Sugar House.
Libby Prison and Libby Prison War Museum
Will Parmiter Kent, The Story of Libby Prison: Also Some Perils and
Sufferings of Certain of Its Inmates. Second edition. Chicago,
Ill.: The Libby Prison War Museum Association [1890].
Profusely illustrated. On the cover pictures of Libby Prison “as it
was” and “as it is.”
[Anonymous], Libby Prison War Museum: Catalogue and Program. Chicago:
Libby Prison War Museum Association, [no year given]; reprinted
several times.
[Anonymous], A Trip through the Libby Prison War Museum. Chicago: Libby
Prison National War Museum Association, 189?.
Frank E. Moran, A Thrilling History of the Famous Underground Tunnel of
Libby Prison. New York: Reprinted from the Century Magazine,
1889-1893.
F. F. Cavada, Libby Life: Experiences of a Prisoner of War in Richmond,
Va., 1863-64. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1865.
Most comprehensive description with contemporary illustrations, among
them a reproduction of the best contemporary engraving of Libby Prison
in Richmond, Va.
Louis Palma di Cesnola, Ten Months in Libby Prison. [Pamphlet, no place,
no date]. [New York, 1865].
Description of prison life in Libby prison, 1863-1864.
Isaac N. Johnston, Four Months in Libby, and the Campaign against
Atlanta. Cincinnati: J. N. Johnston, 1864.
A. O. Abbott, Prison Life in the South at Richmond, Macon, Savannah,
during the Years 1864 and 1865. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1865.
Description of the life in Libby Prison by a former prisoner, on pp.
22-41.
Cullen B. (“Doc”) Aubery, Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the
Potomac, 1861-1865; His Capture and Confinement in Libby Prison.
[Milwaukee, Wisc.: Doc Aubery, 1904].
Memoirs of Libby Prison and its commanders by a former prisoner of
war.
United States Sanitary Commission
United States Sanitary Commission, Narrative of Privations and
Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners
of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Boston: “Little’s
Living Age,” 1865.
Official report of a commission of inquiry, with an appendix
containing the testimony. See also Arthur C. Cole, The Irrepressible
Conflict, 1850-1865 (A History of American Life, Vol. VII) (New York,
1934), pp. 322 f., 331 f.
W. S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington with Historical and
Critical Notes. Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885, pp. 150
ff., especially No. 364, p. 154.
The present bibliography has been completed on April 1, 1945.
The author wishes gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of the American Numismatic Society (Mr. Sawyer Mc. A. Mosser, Librarian) and of the New York Historical Society (Mr. John T. Washburn, Chief of the Reading Room) in permitting him use of their collections, without which this study could never have been completed.
Transcriber’s Notes
—Silently corrected a few typos.
—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook
is public-domain in the country of publication.
—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by
_underscores_.
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