Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — The Tunnel at Libby Prison. [ARTICLE]

The Tunnel at Libby Prison.

The March Century will contain the story of “Colonel Rose’s Tunnel at Libby Prison,” told by one of the hundred and nine Union officers who escaped on the night of February 9, 1864. The successful construction of this tunnel, dug from a dark corner of the cellar of the prison, thr6ugh fifty feet of solid earth,—the only tools being two broken chisels and a wooden spittoon in which to carry out the dirt,— was one of the most remarkable incidents of the wax.