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Show MAR 21 1G94 LIBRARY. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 15, 1894. VOLUME V. NUMBER 12. just as dreary, and uninviting as of old, of these is piece of the flag that floated when so many despairing men entered over Fort Sumter at the time of its MUSEUM, surrender. In the Jefferson Davis its portals. collection are quite a number of his Oh, how much of the in YURING my stay Chicago, "Fire of youth, the ambition with private papers, among them being a last summer, I frequently w-- J love-letthe wrote, in 1834, to Sarah which manhood came, passed the Libby Prison War Museum, "The hopes and fears for fortune and Taylor, who afterwards became his When on my way to the While City. wife. Such are the penalties of fame! for fame," Of course I had often heard of the were blasted within its walls. The next department we visited was museum, but had not a perfectly clear Little time, however, was left for that which was used as a "Mess, or conception of .what it contained. I had such rellection. as we began to explore dining-rooby the 'prisoners. In the heard that tjic original prison had been the prison yard, which contains a north wall of this room is a small secret removed froiVi Richmond, V a., to Chinumber of relics, such as torpedoes, opening leading to the famous tunnel etc. The most through which 109 officers made their cago, and one day when we were pass cannon, ing it. I remarked to my companionaJffterertiiifj of thesn is a srrlion of the escape in the night of Feb. 9, 18G4. that, considering its age, it had a great iron chain stretched across the Just as we entered this room the guide Hudson river by General Israel Putnam in charge of it was explaining to a wonderfully new and appearance. Upon this, one of. them in 1776, to prevent British vessels from number of visitors the manner in which was cot'tilsed with laughter, and informpassing up. This section consists of the escape was made, but as all of our ed us other wondering mortals that tjie eighteen links, each of which weighs party were deaf, it was lost on us. We real prison was in a yard behind the one hundred and fifty pounds. The examined the various curiosities in the stone battlement walls, which we had greater part of this chain, which was room until he had finished and the little taken to be the genuine article. sixteen hundred feet long, is still buried crowd had dispersed. We, then, made One day we decided to visit it, but in the mud of the Hudson. bold to ask him if he was one of those before proceeding futher, a bit "of its After walking around the yard, we who escaped on that memorable night. entered the prison proper by the main Mucn to our disappointment he replied history may not come amiss. n In 1888 some Chicago entrance, and found ourselves in a in the negative, stating that he was a business men conceived the project of large room, which the guide informed prisoner at the time and knew nothing removing to Chicago, the famous old us was the reception (?) room, in which of the planned escape until the next Confederate prison which during the the prisoners, were received and ex- morning, and then the invectives sent late war held more than 40,000 Union amined when brought from the various after the escaped ones, were not loud officers and privates as prisoners. battlefields. In this room as in the but deep. These men visited Richmond and others, we found an embarassment ties Going upstairs wo came into what after some negotiations, bought it and ndies of Union and Confederate relics. was formerly the hospital, where ill arranged for its removal to Chicago. We first looked at the large number of and wounded prisoners were cared for It was a great feat in the history of portraits of Confederate officers. One as well as circumstances permitted, one which has not yet of these surprised me considerably. It which in those times could not have building-movinbeen equalled or surpassed. wa9that of Major Thomas Todd. As been very well. As the building was taken apart, the inscription informed us, he was a Of the cases filled with relics, I can each board beam, timber and block of brother of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and mention only a few. In one case are stone, was numbered and lettered in was in active service in the Confederate the Xew York World and Boston Daily such a manner that no difficulty was army. In all I have heard and read Advertiser of April 15, 18G5, and the 1SG5. encountered in correctly putting them of President Lincoln, I had never yet Xew York Herald of April It was known that a brother-in-laof his was describing the assassination of Presitogether in the opened to the public in September, in the rebel army, while he himself dent Lincoln. In the same case are 1889, and has since been liberally was straining every nerve to preserve numerous other relics of Lincoln. Then there are the Milroy, Chickam the Union. The famous Appomatox patronized. As we passed through the arch, the table is also here, and in the cases are anga, Gettysburg and Potomac rooms. THE LIBBY PRISON WAR er -- m . gun-carriage- well-preserve- s, d well-know- g; 15-1- 8, re-buildin- g. grim Id prison cam e into view, looking w relics tto numerous . to - mention. One The first is so named because Gen- - |