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Libby Prison, Union prisoners at Richmond, Virginia from nature by Act. Major Otto Boetticher; lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y

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Libby Prison, Union prisoners at Richmond, Virginia from nature by Act. Major Otto Boetticher; lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y

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Print shows the interior of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia with Union officers and soldiers sitting or standing in groups. Brigadier General August Willich (1810-1878), captured at the Battle of Stones River, is shown reading in bed, at right.
Forms part of the Adolph Metzner American Civil War Collection at the Library of Congress.

"Otto Boetticher, del., 1862" signature in image.
Print copyrighted in 1863.
Sheet trimmed at bottom through publication and copyright statement. Information supplied from another copy.

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01/01/1863
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