Alton Prison Search Prison Records | Alton in the Civil War | Credits | HOME The Alton prison opened in 1833 as the first Illinois State Penitentiary and was closed in 1860, when the last prisoners were moved to a new facility at Joliet. By late in 1861 an urgent need arose to relieve the overcrowding at 2 St. Louis prisons. On December 31, 1861, Major General Henry Halleck, Commander of the ...

Ndersonville, Georgia, is the site of the best known of all the American Civil War (1861-1865) prisoner-of-war (POW) camps. Andersonville is located in south-central Georgia, near the towns of Americus and Plains. Programs and exhibits at Andersonville National Historic Site depict the grim life suffered by prisoners of war, North and South, during the war. In 1970, Andersonville National ...

The Story of One Union Soldier Private Bernard McKnight - Massachusetts 3rd Cavalry 1838 - 1864 Early Life Coming to America Civilian to Soldier Action on the Mississippi Capture at Port Hudson Andersonville Prison Epilogue Documents / References Bernard was an Irish immigrant who came to America in the late 1850s. He brought his wife and young child with him and settled in Taunton, ...

Friends of the Florence Stockade Florence, South Carolina Sketch of the Florence Stockade from Prisoners of War and Military Prisons (1890) The Society for the Preservation of this Civil War Prison Stockade Site, and the memory of the prisoners and those who guarded them. Support Needed to Preserve this Historic Civil War Site!!! Click on our links below to find out more about the Florence ...

A site dedicated to the explication of the Wirz Andersonville Trial ...

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

Brothers Bound A Source Page for Information on the Civil War Era Prisoner of War Experience One of the darker sides of this war was the fate of those people, men and some women, captured and taken prisoner in the line of duty. Conditions in these institutions were often terrible, in both Confederate and Union facilities. About 56, 000 men were prisoners of war, and it is estimated that about 14% ...

Civil War Prisoner Research Site. This site provides resouces for historical researchers and geneologist looking for information on Civil War Prisons and Prisoners.

Prisoners and Prisons This may take a while, please be patient. Confederate prisoners captured in the Shenandoah Valley being guarded in a Union camp, May 1862. 294k Three Confederate prisoners from the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863. 243k Baseball game between Union prisoners at Salisbury, N.C., 1863. Lithograph of a drawing by Maj. Otto Boetticher. 311k Issuing rations. Andersonville Prison, ...

Confederate POW's Listed in Arkansas Units Who Died in Rock Island, IL Prison Camp This information was abstacted from the Register of Confederate Dead Rock Island Illinois, compiled in the Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, War Department, 1912 . The complete listing along with A Short History of the Rock Island Prison Barracks (Revised Edition) by Otis Bryan ...

Institute for Historical Review The Civil War Concentration Camps by Mark Weber No aspect of the American Civil War left behind a greater legacy of bitterness and acrimony than the treatment of prisoners of war. Andersonville still conjures up images of horror unmatched in American History. And although Northern partisans still invoke the infamous Southern camp to defame the Confederacy, the ...

Civil War Prisons In the very beginning of the Civil War, prisoners of war were exchanged right on the battlefield, a private for a private, a sergeant for a sergeant and a captain for a captain. In 1862 this system broke down and caused the creation of large holding pens for prisoners in both the North and South. On July 18, 1862, Major General John A. Dix of the Union Army met with the ...

The history of Salisbury Prison through eyewitness testimony.