Coins; Medals; Money; Numismatics; Prisoners of war
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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