Confederate Prisoner of War Records

United States U.S. Military U.S. Civil War Confederate Prisoner of War Records

There is a microfilm set of 145 Microfilm reels of 429 volumes naming Confederate-held prisoners is a set of 429 volumes naming Confederate-held prisoners:

• Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861–1865. {NARA M598}. Washington, DC: The National Archives, 1965–66, (FHL films 1303301–445.) Consists mainly of registers and lists of captured soldiers and civilians. The records may provide such information as names, rank, unit or residence, dates of capture, deaths, prisoners released, and so on.

Histories

Speer, Lonnie R., Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War, (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, c1997), contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons. FHL book 973 M2spe. Other libraries.