
Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It gained an infamous reputation for the harsh conditions under which prisoners from the Union Army were kept.
Libby Prison in The Guns of the South[]
Libby Prison served as a prisoner of war camp exclusively for Union officers.
In 1864, Union cavalry commander Hugh Kilpatrick launched a raid with the ultimate goal of reaching the prison. The rebels somehow learned exactly what path his advance would take, and he was ambushed long before he got to prison. Despite this victory, there was still a mass breakout of prisoners that same year.
In 1868, after an end was brought to the America Will Break insurrection, the Confederate government used Libby Prison to hold all the surviving terrorists. The prison was heavily modified and included an increased guard force.
President Robert E. Lee personally visited the prison to offer limited amnesty to any of the time travelers that would be willing to help the Confederate government reverse engineer technology brought from the future.
Libby Prison in Worldwar[]
After the American Civil War, the battlemented façade of Libby Prison was moved to Chicago, where it became part of the Chicago Coliseum. Most of the battlement was pounded to pieces during the Battle of Chicago.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Upsetting the Balance, pgs. 200-201, HC.
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