Civil War Relic Libby Prison
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Octagonal shallow pine bowl with nice old patina, period paper label on base with pencil manuscript reading: Libby Prison Relic Your Uncle Will gave the padlock to father and his book to me when he came home in Feb. 1865. The Wooden piece was his soup dish n November and December 1864. The bowl is 5 1/8 x 5 3/8 x 1" high and has earlier inscription in red under attached paper label and additional pencil inscription reading Libby Prison Soup Dish, Wm. Bradford, Feb. 1865. William H. Bradford was a 2nd Lt in the 2nd Tenn. Infantry and was captured and spent time in Libby Prison. This was the only Union officer that we could find by that name that was in Libby.
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Civil War Relic Libby Prison
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