A general survey of the history of the prisons and the treatment of prisoners during the Civil War, with select bibliography.
A. B. Sage’s Historical Prison Tokens
Augustus B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, No. 1, New York: February, 1859, p. 1.
Advertisement and description of the series of Sage’s “Historical Tokens,” nos. 1-10.
A. B. Sage, Catalogue of Coins, Medals, and Tokens, New York: June, 1859.
On inner front-cover advertisement and description of the series of Sage’s “Historical Tokens,” nos. 1-14, and of another token series, “Odds and Ends.” These data, though of general numismatic interest, are not reproduced in L. Forrer’s Biographical Dictionary of Medalists. Hence they are given here in full.
Historical Tokens:
No. 1. The Old Provoost Prison, 2 dies.
No. 2. The Old City Hall, Wall Street.
No. 3. Faneuil Hall, Boston.