United States » U.S. Military: Civil War » Prisons & Prisoners

Alton in the Civil War - Alton Prison

Illinois.

Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 $

Original source: Several, see web site. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

ANDERSONVILLE Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

For the descendants and interested historians of Andersonville, the Civil War's most notorious prison camp, to swap knowledge and research the lives of Union prisoners before, during, and after their time in Andersonville.

Andersonville National Historic Site

From the National Park Service.

Brothers Bound

A source page for information on the Civil Ware era prisoner of war experience - links to histories, biographies, rosters, and primary documents.

Cahaba Civil War Prison

Selma, Alabama.

Camp Douglas, Illinois

Prison camp and training camp.

Camp Ford - Texas Beyond History

Camp Ford, C.S.A.

The largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi River.

Camp Lawton: A Confederate Military Prison

History from the Georgia Southern Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgia Southern University.

Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery and Museum

Louisiana.

Charleston Race Course Prison Dead, SC

Union Civil War Prisoners of War originally buried at the Charleston Race Course Cemetery and later reinterred at the Beaufort National Cemetery.

Civil War - Confederate and Union Prisoners of War

Searchable database of Civil War Union and Confederate Prisoners of War.

Civil War Memory - But What About Those Northern Prison Camps?

Civil War Richmond - Prisons

Including information about Belle Isle Prison and Libby Prison.

CivilWarPrisonsers.com

Searchable databases of Union prisoners interned at Andersonville and Cahaba prisons, and Union prisoners on the Sultana.

Confederate POW Graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

St. Louis, Missouri.

Confederate POW's Listed in Arkansas Units Who Died in Rock Island, IL Prison Camp

Confederate POW's Listed in Kentucky Units Who died at Rock Island, IL