By the winter of 1863–64, Libby Prison — a converted ship-chandler’s warehouse on Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia — held roughly 1,200 captured Union officers packed into eight bare rooms with no beds, no chairs, no heat, and rations that had shrunk to a fist of coarse cornbread and a swallow of water. Men died of dysentery, pneumonia, and starvation. Colonel Thomas E. Rose, a 34-year-old former Pennsylvania schoolteacher captured at Chickamauga in September 1863, arrived in October and began looking for a way out almost the moment he came through the door...
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