Andersonville National Historic Site Located in Andersonville, GA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS The Georgia Monument in Andersonville National Cemetery honors all American prisoners of war. (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, was one of the largest of many Confederate military prisons established during the ...

Alton Prison Search Prison Records | Alton in the Civil War | Credits | HOME The Alton prison opened in 1833 as the first Illinois State Penitentiary and was closed in 1860, when the last prisoners were moved to a new facility at Joliet. By late in 1861 an urgent need arose to relieve the overcrowding at 2 St. Louis prisons. On December 31, 1861, Major General Henry Halleck, Commander of the ...

Andersonville Civil War Prison Hi Researchers. My name is Kevin Frye and I live in Butler, Georgia, a small town 40 miles from the infamous Andersonville Civil War Prison Camp . I do volunteer lookups at no charge as well as take pictures (for a very modest fee) for fellow researchers who want photos of their ancestor's grave.( See Sample photo`s in OTHER SERVICES I PROVIDE . )You can contact me ...

Welcome to the Official Fort Delaware Society Webpage The Fort Delaware Society has been dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Fort Delaware since 1950 This site last updated 06/14/02 * Best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution I was registered in Ward 11. All of my clothing was taken from me and I was clad in shirt and drawers of coarse texture belonging to the hospital and which ...

Ndersonville, Georgia, is the site of the best known of all the American Civil War (1861-1865) prisoner-of-war (POW) camps. Andersonville is located in south-central Georgia, near the towns of Americus and Plains. Programs and exhibits at Andersonville National Historic Site depict the grim life suffered by prisoners of war, North and South, during the war. In 1970, Andersonville National ...

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

Friends of the Florence Stockade Florence, South Carolina Sketch of the Florence Stockade from Prisoners of War and Military Prisons (1890) The Society for the Preservation of this Civil War Prison Stockade Site, and the memory of the prisoners and those who guarded them. Support Needed to Preserve this Historic Civil War Site!!! Click on our links below to find out more about the Florence ...

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Gratiot Street Prison, the Civil War Union prison in St. Louis, Missouri.

Elmira Prison Camp OnLine Library Government Documents | Submitted Information | Personal Information | Gallery | Links | Contact Information | Awards | Home What's New - March 24, 2002 Article by William Hesseltine, Elmira New York: The Shame of the Union . Account of Ellis Davis, The Battle of Marianna and Imprisonment at Elmira. Site Index Government Documents Submitted Information Personal ...

Camp Douglas, Illinois largest training camp in Illinois land provided by estate of Stephen A. Douglas in 1861 now between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Parkway and 31st and 36th Streets, Chicago east side: parade ground and administration buildings south side: camp hospitals west side: prison camp 32 units trained here: 9 Cav, 51 IL Inf, 55 IL Inf first prisoners arrived in 1862, about 8000 ...

Brothers Bound A Source Page for Information on the Civil War Era Prisoner of War Experience One of the darker sides of this war was the fate of those people, men and some women, captured and taken prisoner in the line of duty. Conditions in these institutions were often terrible, in both Confederate and Union facilities. About 56, 000 men were prisoners of war, and it is estimated that about 14% ...

Camp Chase Cemetery 2900 Sullivant Avenue Columbus, Ohio These pages are a little slow to load. Please be patient. EXPLANATORY NOTES: (a) Double burial shown on headstone. Grave number is listed twice to provide information on both individuals interred. (b) Double burial shown on Register of 1912 but not on Headstones. Suffix Rgstr or Hdstn identifies source of data shown here. (c) Register of ...

Andersonville Prison Records for the 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry Derived from Andersonville National Park computer Andersonville, Georgia Comments welcomed. E-mail to EvanSlaug@aol.com Number Code: 10000-29999 Buried at Andersonville Number Code: 30000-39999 Reportedly died at Andersonville, but lack any record Number Code: 40000-49999 Left Andersonville alive Company Code Name B ...

Civil War Prisoner Research Site. This site provides resouces for historical researchers and geneologist looking for information on Civil War Prisons and Prisoners.

Prisoners and Prisons This may take a while, please be patient. Confederate prisoners captured in the Shenandoah Valley being guarded in a Union camp, May 1862. 294k Three Confederate prisoners from the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863. 243k Baseball game between Union prisoners at Salisbury, N.C., 1863. Lithograph of a drawing by Maj. Otto Boetticher. 311k Issuing rations. Andersonville Prison, ...

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Confederate POW's Listed in Arkansas Units Who Died in Rock Island, IL Prison Camp This information was abstacted from the Register of Confederate Dead Rock Island Illinois, compiled in the Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, War Department, 1912 . The complete listing along with A Short History of the Rock Island Prison Barracks (Revised Edition) by Otis Bryan ...

Search Andersonville Prison Records Prisoner's Last Name: Prisoner's First Name: State Alabama California Colorado Territory Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Florida Georgia Iowa Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi North Carolina New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Tennessee United ...

Confederate Stockade Cemetery Johnson's Island, Ohio GRAVE NAME RANK DATE Co. ORGANIZATION OF DEATH 160 ALEXANDER, F. (or T.) J. LIEUT 15 FEB 1864 C 4TH ALA. BATT. 33 ANDERSON, B. PVT 14 FEB 1863 MO. STATE CAV. 156 ARCHIBALD, A. B. CAPT 6 FEB 1864 D 8TH CONF. CAV. 115 ARMFIELD, M. D. CAPT 3 DEC 1863 B 11TH N.C. INF. 123 ARRINGTON, J. D. LIEUT 26 DEC 1863 H 32ND N.C. INF. 78 ASBURY, J. (or ASHBY) ...

Life in a Texas Prison Pen - Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas ...

Institute for Historical Review The Civil War Concentration Camps by Mark Weber No aspect of the American Civil War left behind a greater legacy of bitterness and acrimony than the treatment of prisoners of war. Andersonville still conjures up images of horror unmatched in American History. And although Northern partisans still invoke the infamous Southern camp to defame the Confederacy, the ...

Civil War Prisons In the very beginning of the Civil War, prisoners of war were exchanged right on the battlefield, a private for a private, a sergeant for a sergeant and a captain for a captain. In 1862 this system broke down and caused the creation of large holding pens for prisoners in both the North and South. On July 18, 1862, Major General John A. Dix of the Union Army met with the ...

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A Visit to Camp Ford The Largest Confederate Prison Camp West of the Mississippi (Part 1) Camp Ford On this site during the Civil War was located Camp Ford, the largest prisoner of war compound for Union troops west of the Mississippi River, named in honor of Col. John S. 'Rip' Ford who originally established a training camp here in 1862. It was converted in the summer of 1863 to a prison camp.

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Elmira Prison Hellmira Almost 25 percent of the 12, 123 Confederate soldiers who entered the 40-acre prisoner of war camp at Elmira, NY, died. This death rate was more than double the average death rate in other Northern prison camps, and only 2 percent less than the death rate at the infamous Southern prison at Andersonville, GA. The deaths at Elmira were caused by ...

HAUNTED CHICAGO - CAMP DOUGLAS EIGHTY ACRES OF HELL IN A CONFEDERATE PRISON CAMP Camp Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, became a place of brutal misery to many Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Rumors of crowded and unhealthy conditions, along with death and disease, were widely circulated in the southern press during the war. The camp soon earned what many people would ...

Article from the Confederate Veteran (vol. XX (1912), p.327), 'Prison Experience in Elmira, N.Y.', by Dr. G. T. Taylor.

The history of Salisbury Prison through eyewitness testimony.

LESSON ON ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ANDERSONVILLE PRISON: AN ECONOMIC MICROCOSM INTRODUCTION All society must develop an economic system to answer the basic economic questions. While we usually identify economic systems with a country (the United States has a market oriented system; the former Soviet Union had a command system), it is also possible to identify an economic system at a micro level. In this ...

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Belle Island Prison Like So Many Hungry Wolves Stormy and disagreeable weather. From fifteen to twenty and twenty-five die every day and are buried just outside the prison with no coffins- nothing but canvas wrapped around them. So wrote captured Union soldier John Ransom in his November 27, 1863, diary entry from Belle Island Prison. On February 11, 1864, the 20-year-old ...

CAMP CHASE CONFEDERATE CEMETERY Columbus, Ohio For many years, fresh flowers have mysteriously appeared on the grave of Benjamin Allen, a soldier in the Confederate Army, who is buried in the cemetery. They have also been found on the grave of an unknown soldier. Are they the gifts of some mysterious Confederate sympathizer Or are they tokens of grief from beyond this world Camp Chase was ...

Laura Keeble (Kibby) Clayton is the great-grand-neice of Samual L. Cowan. She says, I don't know what the L. in his name stands for. Maybe my brother or sister do. As for the picture, we know it is a Cowan ancestor in his Civil War get-up, but I'm not sure if it's the same man. It is an interesting story. I'm happy to share it. Having been captured at Fort Donelson at its surrender to the ...

Wills, Letters & Legends Battle Flag of 41st Ala. Inf., Alabama Department of Archives and History John Drish Leland was named for Dr. John Drish, a relative of his mother. He was a Captain in the Confederate Army and was taken prisoner and confined at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. He was with Gen. John Morgan in the raid through Ohio. A foraging party, which he was leading, took a horse from the ...

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Castle Pinckney Not A Death Camp Castle Pinckney was a small masonry fortification built by the federal government in the 1790s in Charleston Harbor, SC. Built to protect the city of Charleston, it was located about a mile off shore from Charleston on a shoal off Shutes Folly Island, and was named for the Revolutionary War hero Charles C. Pinckney. By 1860 Castle Pinckney ...

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Fort Delaware Starvation In A Land Of Plenty The marshy location, inclement weather, brutal treatment, and overcrowded conditions at Fort Delaware prisoner-of-war camp on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River all combined to make the Confederate inmates miserable. It was the starvation diet, however, that imposed the greatest hardship and led to the most ...

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A ferry connects Fort Delaware with two other historic forts built to protect Philadelphia along the Delaware River.

Libby Prison Libby Prison, 3 buildings all togethor, had not been designed as a prison. It had been designed as a warehouse. John Enders had built Libby, but died, and then Libby was purchased by Luther Libby from Maine. He put up a sign L. Libby & Son, Chip Chandlers . At the begining of the war, Libby was given 48 hours to vacate the building, so it could be used as a prison. The only thing ...

Prisons, Paroles & POWs Old Capitol Prison The American Bastille After the British burned the U.S. Capitol during the War of 1812, Congress built a brick building on 1st St. in Washington to serve as a temporary capitol. The building became known as the Old Capitol after Congress moved back to its permanent home, and it began a new life as a fashionable boardinghouse. Sen. John C. Calhoun was ...