Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — The Tunnel at Libby Prison. [ARTICLE]

The Tunnel at Libby Prison.

Tho March Century will contain the story of "Colonel Rose’s Tunnel at Libby Prison.” told by one of the one hundred and nine Union oflicers»who escaped on the bight ot February 9, 1864. The successful construetioTof this tunnel. dug from a dark corner of the cellar of the prison, through fifty feet ot solid earth —the only tools being two broken chisels apd a wooden spittoon in which to carry out the dirt.^—was one of the most remarkable incidentsof the war. Colonel Rose, to whose indomitable will and perseveronce the success of the of the scheme was due,, is now a cap tain of the 16th United States Infantry, and of the fourteen men who assisted him in digging the tunnel, eleven are still living. The narrative in the March Century, which is illustrated, forms one of the untechnical papers supplementing the War Series, and it is said to be one of the most romantic records that The Centnxy has ever printed.