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ht-abie■.nshork-LI5BY PRISON IK iM atlb* Cftytb*rhen : teftitwnruns.iiudisseisTheilitt*-p* a: pect- j fwiXBtd a lht a* of *1*1 • « war-.tan 1likftl . w as :it of j*riy;Uk?tsitodtiocswtid i wa jpine. .e Of , tbo**' s the 1 •stemrmildSUBSefor*;*r of * run naryLDrr’nBQi ,as it walt;. chacge Chicago baa taken Libby prfean. This noted structure now suad* m Chicago with almost csactiytb* same appaaranc* itbad tn Richmond, though a cnseila^i *»•' tcrTctm.L and U a icpwJ ctmnsi^ of the war and southern ^fiAa^tarc^n-eralv. The removal and reooa*jrnc:ilt;ra of the old tobacco waftbcu**. xuay be compared la skill with the nt‘t«u reoomlof thonbeluk of Luxcr from Egypt to rarU^d-sumlyr feats, save teat the oba.^ had to ti*e mo red entire, while tee Libby taken* pieces.The old building as it stood ;n Fkchmooa waa fir*: photographed and sketched »* a whole, and In parts Urge an d «m*U, tfcl it was * pictured to eye and mind :-at every detail could blt;- reproduced. Then, as it wa» takdn down, enry one its ©O.aOO p*e« of wood, brick, stone anl iron c-*s*d and numbered: they were transported u and. far- the decays! w Oden sections which had to fc* replaenl, and sot- portions «i-fCroyed in a rallr*\ul arc; lent, tbo wh*. ^ nwtvred. It stands uy-'n a commam-mg point, and if well uk i witb'tfoien and Gm-federate rrLcs, largely the collsetk** of Mr. C. F. Gunter- the pnssmcat of Mttsenmassociation.Tcere are old iwordf, guns. -Ok*. ^eeiu. picture* and fragment** - i a hundred kmd* Collected from the battle fields. There are diaries from the pockets cf fallen soicflatainin? the last Ln^ t»s*y w*o:*; phot.-grapk* stained with iko blood of their wrier*. letters without direcUoo when the writ- r w.x- killed, scons of curioas ornament* whit' tied out in camp, and hundreds t original letters written on th- •«:? field or imm-d;-ateiy after by men who badtak-n part, and donated bv their recipient*. Theft* ar~ aisowav curies net so directly ean»etwi withthe war. such as *utclt;ruph iettart of emin-n:men and old book* sad popet3 throwing cn those tuca*.Specsal department* are Grant and Sbenuan. and tnent-T* are quite rar** are disp lays under papers, flaming tii.ns and ~—, —and one sen-s which combine* theand tu** In licrou*—fiW of - •’Lemfrom the an «r I hotly edited •■*- •*whict t:i*» t-'gmnlng • f war was chronicled down tbo dirry wail popsr oa^wlucbtbi: inst tv was printed.Lfaocdn.th- m-s-Th**r«|lt;v*r «,»,•team»v •-here-1rland.plae*»o ! iie ust^r*d th? : they0 enn-XJBET WJ*:.‘S MTSEVU.TV- fam-‘-s tunc*', toro*;. whl !i C 1. fitreigh: nnd others —lt; sp *i i* reproduced tis nearly as po«iWe. and all ti • bwuiaa and bricks on wbi -h • • i.riK.t:«rs ar-/*.-l «r painttfd •entetie.w -r d-.v:re* are in their place Tb- m-’ujer.t-vcs ' Lincota and J-»hn Brown arv of peculiar intenwu The Utby prtKm w;ir rr.useom wi_ ran*. h:gh am mg me eigbu of Chicago.
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Wichita Eagle
Wichita, Kansas, US
Sun, Jan 05, 1890
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