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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

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 C.S.A.

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

Macon County, Georgia

National Park Service - Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery Ridge, Maryland

Ohio Prisoner of War Camp Sources

Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization

Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates in the state of Maryland, 1863 to 1865.

Search For Prisoners

Online searchable database of prisoners in Andersonville prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia and Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. From the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System.

The 48th Ohio at Camp Ford

History of Camp Ford, the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi.

The Civil War Prisons Message Board

The Immortal 600

600 Confederate prisoners of war imprisoned at Ft. Delaware, Ft. Pulaski, Hilton Head, and other places.

The Johnson's Island Memorial Project

Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Civil War prison and cemetery. A project of the Ohio Division United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The Prisoners of War Point Lookout Maryland

U.S. National Archives - Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861–1865

U.S. National Archives - Death Register of Confederate Prisoners at Johnson's Island, Ohio, 1889 - 1904

Record Group 109: War Department Collection of Confederate Records, 1825 - 1927

U.S. National Archives - List of Prisoners, 1863 - 1865

Camp Morton and Burnside Barracks were located in Indianapolis, Indiana and operated in conjunction during the time period 1862 - 1865. Record Group 393: Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1817 - 1947.

Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, NY

Unlikely Allies : Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War

A book by Dale Fetzer.