Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — From Timbers of Libby Prison. [ARTICLE]

From Timbers of Libby Prison.

North JudsonCor, Winamac Republican, J. Danelson, living in the north part of Starke county, built a bridge, for his own special use, across the Kankakee river near his country home that in a sense is a relic. The lumber of which the bridge is built was at one time a part of the famous Libby prison at Richmond, Virginia. Some years after the close of the war the building was torn down and moved to Chicago and used as a war museum. After the world’s fair closed, and it failed to be a profitable investment, was torn down and sold, Mr. Danelson buying several car loads of the lumber. Hon. W. H. Coffin has secured one of the grates through which many of the union soldiers looked longingly for liberty. He will present it to the grand army post at Knox.