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==== Union Provost Marshals' File ==== | ==== Union Provost Marshals' File ==== | ||
The | The [[Union Provost Marshals' File#Union Provost Marshals' File (Two or More Civilians)|Provost Marshals' File]] of papers relating to two or more civilians (NARA M416) contains lists of civilian prisoners in Union prisons. The records of prisoners are on microfilm rolls 84-94 and are listed alphabetically by prison location.<ref>United States. National Archives and Records Service. ''Pamphlet Describing M416: Union Provost Marshal’s File of Papers Relating to Two or More Civilians''. Washington, D.C., National Archives And Record Service, 1969.</ref> The records are available online. | ||
==== Other Confederate Prisoner of War Records ==== | ==== Other Confederate Prisoner of War Records ==== | ||
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Union Prisons for Confederate Soldiers[edit | edit source]
Records of the National Archives[edit | edit source]
Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865[edit | edit source]
The "Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865" (NARA M598) is a collection consisting of 427 bound volumes. The records are of Confederate prisoners of war and political prisoners confined in Union prisons. They consist mainly of registers and lists of captured soldiers and civilians. The records contain information such as names, rank, unit or residence, dates of capture, deaths, and prisoners released. Learn more about this collection.
Online
- United States, Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 (FamilySearch)
- Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 (Ancestry) ($) (note: this database also contains records of M918 and M2072 as well as records of Union prisoners of war from M1303.)
Libraries
- Locate M598 at a library using Worldcat.
Union Provost Marshals' File[edit | edit source]
The Provost Marshals' File of papers relating to two or more civilians (NARA M416) contains lists of civilian prisoners in Union prisons. The records of prisoners are on microfilm rolls 84-94 and are listed alphabetically by prison location.[1] The records are available online.
Other Confederate Prisoner of War Records[edit | edit source]
- Register of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861-1865 (M918)
- Lists of Confederates Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863 (M2072)
Both of the above collections are included in Ancestry's "Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865" database mentioned above.
Related Books[edit | edit source]
- Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War (FHL 973 M2spe) (Worldcat) by Lonnie R. Speer contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ United States. National Archives and Records Service. Pamphlet Describing M416: Union Provost Marshal’s File of Papers Relating to Two or More Civilians. Washington, D.C., National Archives And Record Service, 1969.