prisoner of war at Rock Island Prison Barracks, 1868. by Lafayette Rogan. Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology. From Eastern Illinois University 1865 377 263 List of Confederate Money Taken From Prisoners on Arrival, Aug. 1864-Feb. 1865 Letters Sent by the Provost Marshals Office, Sept.-Oct. 1864 378 26k List of Property Belonging to Prisoners Who Were Transferred to Elmira, N.Y., Aug. 1864 Inventories of Joseph Forrests Estate and the Sothoron Estate, [n.d.] List of Confiscated Articles, [n.d.] List of Vessels Boarded and Searched, [n.d.] List of Persons, Including Those Having Passes, Apr. 1;229* Apr.-May 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0108 Newport News, Va., Military Prison 346 A.R. Also available on microfilm and digital images. Updates: 24 Unidentified Name Index, [n.d.], [ digital copy ] Reel 0065 Eljnira, N.Y. General Registers of Prisoners: 218 G.R. Register of prisoners transferred and escaped June 1863-May 1865. Join the community of family history enthusiasts and FamilySearch employees to ask questions and discuss potential product enhancements. If you can, provide 1-2 sources of information backing up this correction. The prison camp operated from December 1863 until July 1865, when the last prisoners were freed. 1865 Registers of Prisoners: 410 299 1861-62 411 361* 1861-62 412 1 1861-66 List of Sentenced Prisoners, 1864-65 Lists of Prisoners Received and Accounts of Prisoners: 413 A.R. Rock Island prison was authorized in July 1863. 1 General Register of Prisoners, Apr. 3 Jan.-June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0014 Registers of Prisoners, Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 27 OCGP 1 1861-63 28 OCGP 2 1863-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0015 29 1; 169 Register of Civilian Prisoners, Mar. 1938 379 1864-65 155 A.R. 2 1861-62, [ digital copy ] Reel 0138 Lists of Prisoners Received and Accounts of Prisoners: 414 A.R. 1864 25 G.R. list), Official Records of the "War of 29;403 No. Rock Island Confederate Cemetery - National Cemetery Administration Eventually, it sat on 12 acres of land that included prisoner barracks, guard barracks, officers' quarters, administration buildings, supply buildings, and several hospitals. Each barrack had 2 coal burning stoves used for heat. Arsenal of Democracy: A History of Rock Island Arsenal from its 1-26, [n.d.] 72 CC 23 Barracks in Prisons Nos. 6;232* Order Book, Jan.-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0098 Memphis, Tenn., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners in the Custody of the District Provost Marshal: 318 G.R. 3, July 1863-Apr. [ digital copy ] Reel 0008 - Descriptive Lists of Confederate Prisoners and Deserters Released on Taking the Oath of Allegiance, Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 10 1 1861-64 11 2 1865 12 1 Register of Prisoners Ordered To Be Released, Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners, 1865 13 310 14 No. 6 No. All Rights Reserved. The prison had a "dead-line" inside the . 9 No. This project is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant award. 2023 Encyclopedia of Arkansas. 2;486* Oct. 1863- June 1864 282 1 Oct. 1863- July 1865 283 A.R. He was a member of Company A, 24th Alabama Infantry Regiment. An estimated 56,000 died in prison - 30,000 in Confederate prisons and 26,000 in Union prisons. The CALS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. Bearss, Edwin. Their bodies 24, 1865 137 A.R. 1865 307 G.R. There was no hospital. The newly added fields may include admission or entry date, name of prison or hospital, location of prison or hospital, date and place of capture, rank, regiment, company and state, date of death, exchange, parole, or release, and location of grave. It is now home of First Army headquarters, and the US Army's Center of Excellence for Additive Manufacturing. 8, 9,10 Jan. 1864-June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0093 Rolls of Confederate Deserters Received, Apr. 9 Register of Deaths, Releases, and Exchanges, Jan. -June 1865 201 A.R. 1865 132 A.R. 3 Descriptive List of Prisoners, in the Custody of the District Provost Marshal, Who Took Oaths of Amnesty or Allegiance, Mar. Registers of Prisoners, Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 349 OCGP 1 1863-65 350 OCGP 2 1863-65 351 40 Register of Passes Issued to Visitors, Mar. Voices of the Civil War. 1865 128 A.R. Research of: D. John Trull Jr. 1864 205 A.R. 20, July 1863-Apr. Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners, Record Group 249; National Archives, Washington, D.C. The Record of Prisoners of War Who Have Died at Rock Island Barracks, Illinois had also been uploaded to Ancestry.Com. A key and padlock from the Illinois State Penitentiary in Alton, Illinois. Large numbers of Federal troops were captured during the Camden Expedition, especially during the fighting at Poison Spring and Marks Mills. "A List of Confederate Citizen Prisoners Held at the United States Military Prison at Little Rock, Arkansas." Pulaski County Historical Review 36 (Winter 1988): 82-92. Selected Records of the War Department Commissary General of Prisoners Relating to Federal Prisoners of War Confined at Andersonville, GA, 1864-65; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1303, 6 rolls); Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M598, 145 rolls); 2 1864-65 220 G.R. 10;393 No. 1 1862-64, [ digital copy ] Reel 0081 General Registers of Prisoners:272 G.R. and Captain Julius Welch Camp 229- 1865 133 A.R. . 3 Dec. 1863-Jan. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0091 Louisville, Ky., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners:296 G.R. 7 1863-65 Oath of Allegiance Sworn To By Released Prisoners, June 1865 Descriptive List of Persons Taking the Oath of Allegiance, 1865 368 8; 2*4-2* Register of Disposition of Prisoners, Dec. 1863-Oct. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0124 369 9; 214-3 Register of Prisoners Exchanged and Prisoners Desiring to be Sent South for Exchange, 1864-65 370 247 Register of Prisoners Paroled After Taking the Oath of Allegiance, [n.d.] 371 11; 254* Register of Oaths of Allegiance Taken by Prisoners, Jan. 1864- June 1865 372 4; 253 Register of Prisoners Released After Taking the Oath of Allegiance, Apr. 7 No. from the 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, PDF Rock Island Confederate Cemetery - cem.va.gov 1864- June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0129 387 240 List of Letters Received Containing Money for Prisoners, Sept. 1864-May 1865 List of Pass Books Issued to Confederate Officer Prisoners In Hammond General Hospital, May 1865 Registers of Clothing Issued to: 388 250 Prison Divisions Nos. 4, Mar. Confusion reigned, as the U.S. government did not recognize the Confederate government and an exchange system between the two could be seen as a tacit recognition of southern independence. 10, July 1863-Apr. General Grant and Union officials felt that released Confederate prisoners would return to the battlefield, thus prolonging the war. The remaining part of the barrack was to be the sleeping/living quarters for the prisoners. NY, 1862-65; Point Lookout, MD, 1863-65; and Rock Island, IL, 1864. Federal commanders tasked with providing for these prisoners struggled to offer adequate medical care, and many died from smallpox. The enlisted men were exchanged in September 1862 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. 4 Register of Deaths of Prisoners, July 1864-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0068 Morning Reports of Military and Political Prisoners: 225 126 July-Dec. 1864 226 127 Jan.-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0069 Registers of Prisoners Money Received: 227 135 July 1864-June 1865 228 134 July-Nov. 1864 229 133 Register of the Disposition of Prisoners Possessions, 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0070 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts: 230 137* July-Dec. 1864 231 138 Aug.-Nov. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0071 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts: 232 139 1864-65 233 136* Blotter to Ledgers, 1864-65 Check Stubs, FJrst National Bank of Elmra, N.Y.: 234 131 Aug.-Dec. 1864 235 132 Dec. 1864-June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0072 Gratiot and Myrtle Streets Prisons, St. Louis, Mo. 7 Register of Prisoners Confined, Discharged, Escaped, and Transferred, 1862-65 A.R. A total of 4,800 troops were captured in the battle, and the enlisted men were sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois, while the officers were sent Camp Chase and Fort Delaware, Delaware. 14 Oct. 1863-May 1865 304 A.R. 80 List of Prisoners Captured in New Mexico, Aug. 1862 Final Statements of the Number of Confined Prisoners, Aug. 10 and Oct. 1, 1862 List of Prisoners Remaining After Releases and Exchanges, Sept. 10, 1862 List of Prisoners Received From Corinth, Sept. 23, 1862 List of Prisoners at the Prison, Sept. 29, 1862, [ digital copy ] Reel 0057 Registers of Prisoners : 195 329 1862 196 A.R. Williams, Charles. 1862 Lists of Prisoners Released: 62 A.R. DP. 1863-July 1865 315 A.R. 1) A-L, 1863-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0115 General Registers of Prisoners: 357 (pt. American Civil War prison camps - Wikipedia 1862, [ digital copy ] Reel 0099 Camp Morton, Ind., Military Prison Letters Sent Relating to Prisoners;323 124 Dec. 1863-Dec. 1864 324 125 Dec. 1864-Sept. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0100 Letters Sent Relating to Prisoners; 325 G.R. The capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson by the Federals in July 1863 also resulted in the capture of many Arkansans. 3;462* Sept. 1863-Dec. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0086 Accounts of Money and Effects of Prisoners: 287 A.R. 12;396 No. Helping you find your way to Genealogy information. 1 (Dec. 1956), Vital records of Lincoln, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Life of Venerable Mary of the Incarnation, Ursulaie Religious and foundress of the Monastery of Quebec, Canada, A gazetteer of Massachusetts, containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and districts in the commonwealth, also, of its principal mountains, rivers, capes, bays, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts. Online Civil War Indexes, Records and Rosters - Military Indexes It was described by their builder as "put up in the roughest and cheapest manner, mere shanties, with no fine work about them." The deplorable conditions at the camp led some to call it the "Andersonville of the North," a reference to the infamous prison in Georgia. Fitting comment by General Stonewall Jackson, Deaths of Prisoners of War Give a donation in someones name to mark a special occasion, honor a friend or colleague or remember a beloved family member. 1862-Mar. A system of exchange and parole was created in the field to handle some prisoners, but the issue was complicated when the Confederate government allowed ships to operate in its name as privateers. The volumes are broken into distinct sections which aid in your search. During the Civil War, the federal government established a prison on Rock Island to ease the crowded conditions at other prisons in the Midwest. 1865 121 A.R. 17, July 1863-Nov. 1864 131 A.R. 1864-May 1865 Prisoners Statements Giving Other Persons the Power to Receive Their Letters, Money, and Packages, 1864-65 98 35 Unidentified Name Index, [n.d.], [ digital copy ] Reel 0037 Cincinnati, Ohio 37 General Registers of Prisoners: 99 G.R. 2 1863-65 339 G.R. 9, June 1863-Apr. 28, 1865 141 A.R.23 No.29, 1865 142 A.R.36;413 No.30, 1865 143 A.R.35;412 No.31, 1865 144 A.R.34 No.31, 1865 145 A.R.33 No.33, 1865 146 A.R.31;405 No.34, 1865 147 A.R.30[1]404 No.35, 1865 148 A.R.30[2]416 No.36, 1865 149 A.R.38;415 No.37, 1865 150 A.R.37 No.38, 1865 151 A.R.22;387 No.39, 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0046 Registers of Prisoners From: 152 A.R. 21 No. 4;83 1863-65 199 74 Register of Sentenced Prisoners, 1862 List of Deserters, [n.d.] List of Prisoners and Civilians Confined at Various Places, [n.d.] 200 A.R. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0019 Consolidated Morning Reports of Prisoners:39- 179 June 1864-June 1865 40 -190 Morning Reports of Patients and Attendants in the Prison Hospital, June-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0020 41 187 Guardhouse Reports, Register of Passes, Requisitions for Clothing and Supplies, and List of Sentenced Prisoners, 1862 42 A.R. Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison. 1; 218 1862 50 326* 1862-63 51 306 Register of Prisoners Confined, of Prisoners Sent to Vicksburg, Miss., for Exchange, and of Prisoners Captured in Jan. 1863, 1862-63 52 219 Descriptive List of Prisoners, 1862-63, [ digital copy ] Reel 0022 Camp Chase, Ohio, Military Prison Registers of Prisoners: 53 OCGP 1; G.R. 20;58 Ledger of Prisoners Accounts and Name Index, 1863-64, [ digital copy ] Reel 0063 211-Name Index to Ledger of Prisoners Accounts, 1864 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts: 212 A.R. Other information on the site includes histories of Union and Confederate regiments, links to descriptions of significant battles, and selected lists of prisoner-of-war records . Some Northern newspapers compared Rock Island prison to the Andersonville prison of the South. 25 No. The caption is "Confederate Prison 1863-1865, Rock Island Arsenal." That hastily erected Civil War prison camp was long gone by the time this card was published in the early 1900s. 24;398 No. 2;461 Nov. 1862-Sept. 1863 286 A.R. 406 360* Register of Prisoners, 1864-65 407 A.R. -Sept. 1864 404- Sept. 1864- July 1865 1*05 269* Memoranda and Blotter Book Relating to Accounts of Prisoners, Jan. l861*-May 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0136 Ship Island, Miss. A kitchen was built into each barracks. Rock Island was previously used as the summer camp site for Sauk Native Americans, and the dispute over tribal ownership led to the Black Hawk War of 1832, after the primary leader of the Sauk, Black Hawk. Search For Prisoners - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service) Henry Morton Stanley, a member of the Sixth Arkansas, was captured at the Battle of Shiloh and enlisted in the Union army while imprisoned at Camp Douglas. 56 Register of Deaths, Apr. Yet, even though the new camp was not ready, 5,000 Confederate prisoners were delivered there in December 1863, when the temperature was 32 degrees below zero. 6;161 Register of Amnesty Rolls Forwarded, Apr.-May 1865 278 A.R. service of the country, is submitted by Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com United Daughters of the Confederacy, 3 May-July 1865 347 A.R. Some FamilySearch centers and affiliate libraries maintain collections of previously loaned microfilms or microfiche. 1865 337 A.R. 4;156 General Register of Prisoners, Oct. 1863-July 1865 308 2 Register of Prisoners, [n.d.] 309 5; 155* Register of Prisoners Transferred to Fort Delaware, Del., July 1863 310 A.R. Inscription on the UDC Monument 19;420 No. Captain Julius Welch Camp 229 Alton's Pows - Northern Illinois University U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865, U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865, Provided in association with National Archives and Records Administration. Elmira's Civil War prison camp operated from July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, incarcerating a total of 12,121 Confederates. There existed more than 150 military prisons, stockades, camps, and pens on both sides during the War; very little is known of life and conditions in most of them. Alton Prison, Illinois POWs by surname Letters Sent Relating to Prisoners:336 A.R. 6;157 Ledger of Prisoners Accounts, Nov. 1864-Apr. 3 Apr. 9; 170 Descriptive Lists of Prisoners,Jan. 1864 288 A,R. 1861-62 List of Prisoners Received From Henderson, Ky., Jan. 10, 1863 List of Political Prisoners Paroled at Columbus, Ohio, Oct.-Nov. 1862 List of Prisoners for Exchange, 1863-61* List of Prisoners, Jan.-May 1863 Roll Call Books for Prison No. for a death rate of 10% a month, more than any other Civil War prison in any 1-month period. 9 and 10, 1865 153 A.R. 2, Jan. 16, 1863 78 35 Roll Call Book for Prison No. - present, Haywood Co., NC. First Name: State: Confederate Prisoners at Union Prison Camps Galvanized Yankees "Galvanized Yankees" were Confederate Prisoners of War who gained their release from prison by enlisting in the Union Army. Fort Pickens, Fla. 426 OCGP 1;OCGP 2 Register of Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 111., and Camp Morton, Ind., 1862-63 427 Unidentified Register of Confinements, Releases, and Transfers, 1864-65, Search Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 via. The Sultana carried around 2,400 former Union prisoners of war up the Mississippi River in April 1865. Civil War Prison Camps | American Battlefield Trust 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0017 Stationery Returns, Mar. 7;141 Oct. 1864-May 1865 224 A.R. For more information, contact 501-918-3025 orcalsfoundation@cals.org. The day the prisoners came to town - The Quad-City Times Indiana Looking South The first guard force for Rock Island was the 4th Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps. Officers were typically held longer than enlisted men but were often eventually released. 1865 125 A.R. Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, The Battle of Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga. These are hand written documents andunfortunately there is not a singlecomprehensive index. 1865 120 A.R. Rock Island, Illinois Confederate POW Camp - RootsWeb The padlock has a flat metal bar that swings down to cover the key hole. The Rock Island Prison Camp was designed to hold more than 10,000 inmates at any one time, and over the final 18 months of the war, more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners passed through its gates.

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