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• Elmira Civil War Prison Camp

• Elmira Prison Camp (Civil War) History

  History of the Elmira Prison Camp (Civil War) and burials of those who died there.

• Elmira Prison Camp OnLine Library

• FamilySearch - United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865

  Images of 429 volumes of Confederate Prisoners of War records, most of which are from the War Department's Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners. Others are from the Surgeon General's Office, a few Army commands and individual prison camps. The collection consists mainly of lists and registers and is part of RG 109, War Department Collection of Confederate Records. This is NARA publication M598.

• FamilySearch Catalog - Lists of Confederates captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863 ^FREE

  Digitized copies from National Archives microfilm publications; M2072.

• FamilySearch Catalog - Roll of Confederate prisoners of war, paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 1865 ^FREE

  Microfilm of manuscripts housed at the Louisiana National Guard, Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, Louisiana.

• FamilySearch Catalog - Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 : NARA Record Group 109 ^FREE

  Images of records from the United States Provost Marshal during the Civil War. The Provost Marshal served as military police for the Union army. Records in this collection would deal with deserters, Confederate spies, civilains suspected of disloyality, civilians passage through military zones, etc. This is National Archive publication M416.

• FamilySearch Wiki - United States, Records of Confederate Prisoners of War - FamilySearch Historical Records

• Findmypast - Georgia, Andersonville Prison Records 1862-1865 Image Browse $

• Fort Delaware Society

  Delaware City, Delaware.

• Friends of the Florence Stockade

  Florence, South Carolina.

• Galvinized Tars: Confederate Prisoners of War Who Enlisted in the Union Navy

  Information on the many Confederate Prisoners of War who enlisted in the Union Navy. Includes a listing of a small number of these personnel.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Gratiot Street Prison

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

• Handbook of Texas Online: CAMP FORD

• Inside a Civil War Prison Camp: Sketches from Point Lookout | New-York Historical Society

  Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland.

• Kansas Prisoners of War at Camp Ford, Texas 1863-1865

• Libby Prison

  Richmond, Virginia. Names of soldiers who escaped, died or were admitted to the prison, both Union and Confederate.

• Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia

• MA Ryan, Co B 14th Miss Vol Inf CSA

  Experience of a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison in The Civil War 1861-1865.

• Macon County, Georgia

  • Andersonville National Historic Site

    • Prisoner Lookup by Company and Regiment

      Online searchable database.

    • Prisoner Lookup By Name

      Online searchable database.