(CIVIL WAR) Advertising broadside for Prison Life in the Tob

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(CIVIL WAR.) Advertising broadside for "Prison-Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond." Illustrated broadside, 13 1/4 x 7 inches; one horizontal fold, 1/4-inch area of loss near upper right corner, laid down on heavy paper except for the bottom two inches. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 25 March 1862

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The author, Lieutenant William C. Harris, was captured early in the war at Ball's Bluff and imprisoned at Ligon's Tobacco Warehouse, an early precursor to the Confederate prisons at Andersonville and elsewhere. This broadside summarizes the contents of his narrative, assures that it was mostly "written within prison walls and brought to the North securely in the lining of an overcoat," and offers two binding alternatives. The illustration shows "Our last day in the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse Prison," in which the soon-to-be-freed prisoners tossed their old clothes to a group of slaves gathered beneath the windows.