Confederate Prisoner of War Records

United States U.S. Military  U.S. Civil War  Confederate Prisoner of War Records

Records of the National Archives
There is a 145 reel Microfilm set of 429 volumes available from the National Archives that gives the names of Confederate-held prisoners. It consists mainly of registers and lists of captured soldiers and civilians. The records may provide such information as names, rank, unit or residence, dates of capture, deaths, prisoners released. Learn more about this collection.


 * Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861–1865 {NARA M598} (Worldcat)

Related Books

 * Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Worldcat) by Lonnie R. Speer contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons.