Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The camp's original capacity was for 4,000 men, but at times more than 7,000 prisoners were accommodated. The capacity was increased to 7,000, but towards the end of the war up to 10,000 men were crammed into the facility. [14] See also the Confederate Soldier Memorial to the Confederate dead at Camp Chase, dedicated in 1909 Union Camp Douglas
This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally died during a relatively short period, in a small geographic ...
Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus was a training ground and prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. Several thousand Confederate soldiers died from disease, exposure, or malnutrition ...
Cemeteries throughout the South contain the remains of Iowa soldiers who fell during the war, with the largest concentration at Vicksburg National Cemetery. A number also died in Confederate prison camps, including Andersonville prison. Though the total number of Iowans who served in the military during the Civil War seems small compared to the ...
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the east side of the town of ...
The land the camp was built on belonged to Thomas Russel Allen of St. Louis, Missouri and consisted of over 300 acres (120 ha). [2] The property was directly across the Mississippi River from the Rock Island Arsenal, that was also the site of a prisoner of war camp that held Confederate soldiers.
Entitled "Camp Groce Cemetery", the marker commemorates the deaths and burial location of US prisoners of war and Confederate soldiers who died and were buried within the boundaries of Camp Groce. Also, the Washington County Historical Commission has placed a Texas State Historical Marker entitled, "Camp Felder" on the west side of FM 1155 ...
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama, M-311, RG 109. Gryzb, Frank, The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors State by State. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-1-4766-6522-1. Hoar, Jay S. The South's Last Boys in Gray. Bowling Green, Ohio ...