Editing Libby Prison (section)

==After the war==
As of March 1888, an effort was underway by a Chicago syndicate to relocate Libby Prison to Chicago, said one period newspaper, "where it will be kept as a curiosity."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83004226/1888-03-01/ed-1/seq-2/ |access-date=28 November 2023 |publisher=Big Sandy News (Louisa, KY) |date=1 March 1888 |title=The Big Sandy news. &#91;volume&#93; (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, March 01, 1888, Image 2 }}</ref> In 1907, nails from Libby prison were melted down and used to cast the [[Pokahuntas Bell]] for the [[Jamestown Exposition]].<ref>[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]], "[https://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/lccn/sn85038615/1907-04-13/ed-1/seq-2 Pokahuntas Bell for Exposition]", April 13, 1907</ref> The front door of Libby Prison is displayed in the [[American Civil War Museum]], located at the former [[Tredegar Iron Works]] in Richmond.
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In the context of what historian Benjamin Wetzel referred to as "a growing body of scholarship that questions the reconciliationist narrative",<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wetzel |first1=Benjamin J. |title=Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918 |journal=The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |date=April 2023 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=184–203|doi=10.1017/S1537781422000627 |s2cid=258834314 }}</ref> scholars have explored how Union widows, sisters, and cousins, in both correspondence and verse, lamented the deaths and "changes" in survivor psychology and physiology that resulted from Libby Prison confinement.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Springer |first1=Paul |title=Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of Captivity |date=2015 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781135053307 |location=New York, NY |pages=64–65}}</ref> In addition, [[Theodore Roosevelt]] supported and convened the Republican and then [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912–1920)|Progressive (Bull Moose)]] Parties' national conventions at the Chicago Coliseum, the former Libby Prison museum site that continued to feature the prison façade.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Helferich |first1=Gerard |title=Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin: Madness, Vengeance, and the Campaign of 1912 |date=2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4930-0077-7 |pages=158–159 |language=en}}</ref>