Confederate Prisoner of War Records

Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
 Camp Douglas, Chicago
 * Register of Confederate soldiers who died in Camp Douglas, 1862-65 : and lie buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills., 1892.Cincinnati, Ohio : Cohen & Co., 1892 FS Library Digital Images
 * Confederate soldiers, sailors and civilians who died as prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., 1862-1865Kalamazoo, Michigan : Edgar Gray Publications, 1970? FS Library 977.311 M2c

 Camp Morton, Indiana 
 * List of Prisoners, 1863 - 1865 NARA NAID 5637765

 Elmira, New York 
 * Clay W. Holmes. The Elmira prison camp : a history of the military prison at Elmira, New York, July 6, 1864 to July 10, 1865; with an appendix containing the names of Confederate prisoners buried in Woodlawn National Cemetery.New York, New York : Putnam's Sons, 1912. FS Library Digital Images

Johnson's Island, Ohio
 * Death Register of Confederate Prisoners at Johnson's Island, Ohio, 1889 - 1904
 * Registers of Confederate Prisoners at Johnson's Island, Ohio, 1889 - 1904

The "Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865", NARA M598 is a collection consisting of 427 bound volumes. The records are of Confederate prisoners of war and political prisoners confined in Union prisons. They consist mainly of registers and lists of captured soldiers and civilians. The records contain information such as names, rank, unit or residence, dates of capture, deaths, and prisoners released.

Online
 * 1861 - 1865 United States, Records Of Confederate Prisoners Of War, 1861-1865 at Findmypast - Index
 * 1861-1865 (FamilySearch)
 * 1861-1865United States Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865 (FamilySearch)
 * Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 (Ancestry) ($) (note: this database also contains records of M918 and M2072 as well as records of Union prisoners of war from M1303.)
 * 1864-1866 at FamilySearch — index
 * Fort Delaware Society Heritage Research Confederate and Union soldiers.


 * Wiki articles describing online Familysearch collection is found at:


 * United States, Records of Confederate Prisioners of War (FamilySearch Historical Records)
 * United States, Union Provost Marshal's File of Papers Relating to Civilians (Family Search Histotical Records)

Libraries


 * Locate M598 at a library using Worldcat.

Union Provost Marshals' File
The Provost Marshals' File of papers relating to two or more civilians (NARA M416) contains lists of civilian prisoners in Union prisons. The records of prisoners are on microfilm rolls 84-94 and are listed alphabetically by prison location. The records are available online.


 * 1861-1866 at FamilySearch — images
 * 1861-1866 at FamilySearch — images

Other Confederate Prisoner of War Records

 * Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate prisoners of war, 1861-1865 NARA M598


 * Register of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Citizens who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North, 1861-1865, NARA pub M918
 * Lists of Confederates Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863 (M2072)
 * Roll of Confederate prisoners of war, paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 1865
 * Ohio. Adjutant General's office. Burials and Civil War prisoners' records, 1861-1896

Related Books

 * Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Worldcat) by Lonnie R. Speer contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons.
 * Joanne Chiles Eakin, Missouri prisoners of war : from Gratiot Street Prison & Myrtle Street Prison, St. Louis, Missouri, and Alton Prison, Alton, Illinois; including citizens, Confederates, bushwackers and guerrillas Independence, Missouri : J.C. Eakin, c1995 FS Library 977.866 M2e
 * compiled by Alexis A. Praus, compiled. Confederate soldiers and sailors who died as prisoners of war at Camp Butler, Illinois, 1862-1865 Kalamazoo, Michigan : Gray Publications, 19--