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American Civil War prison camps. A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
1864. Camp Groce was reopened in May 1864 for 148 Union prisoners captured at the battle of Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana. The prisoners included the crew of the USS Granite City and USS Wave, Tinclad #45, and 37 soldiers. About 40 soldiers from the 1st Texas US Cavalry were sent to Camp Groce in June 1864, and 506 more Union prisoners were ...
Andersonville National Cemetery, June 2011. The cemetery is the final resting place for the Union prisoners who died while being held at Camp Sumter/Andersonville as POWs. The prisoners' burial ground at Camp Sumter has been made a national cemetery. It contains 13,714 graves, of which 921 are marked "unknown".
Contents. Texas in the American Civil War. This article is about the Confederate state of Texas between 1861 and 1865. For the ships, see CSS Texas. For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). Texas declared its secession from the Union on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861, after it had replaced its governor ...
1865 photograph of Libby Prison. Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days battles (in which nearly 16,000 Union men and officers had been killed, wounded, or captured between June 25 and July 1 alone) and other conflicts of the ...
Cahaba Prison, also known as Castle Morgan, held prisoners of war in Dallas County, Alabama, where the Confederacy held captive Union soldiers during the American Civil War. The prison was located in the small Alabama town of Cahaba , at the confluence of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers, not far from Selma . [ 1 ]
Galvanized Yankees was a term from the American Civil War denoting former Confederate prisoners of war who swore allegiance to the United States and joined the Union Army. Approximately 5,600 former Confederate soldiers enlisted in the United States Volunteers, organized into six regiments of infantry between January 1864 and November 1866.
Elmira Prison. Elmira Prison was originally a barracks for "Camp Rathbun" or "Camp Chemung", a key muster and training point for the Union Army during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1864. The 30-acre (120,000 m 2) site was selected partially due to its proximity to the Erie Railroad and the Northern Central Railway, which crisscrossed ...