Union Prisoner of War Records

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Union Prisoner of War Records
Prisoner of war records of Union prisoners are described in:


 * Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America, 1968. Reprint, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record Administration, 1986. (FHL book 973 A5mb 1986.) Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners are described on pages 247–59.

Prisoner of war records at the Family History Library include:


 * Selected Records of the War Department Commissary General of Prisoners Relating to Federal Prisoners Confined at Andersonville, Georgia, 1864–65. National Archives Microfilm Publication M1303. (FHL film 1930186–91.) Contains a register of about 30,000 departures from the prison; indexes and registers of prisoners admitted to the prison hospital; registers of prisoner deaths and burials as well as monthly reports of prisoners; and so on.

Histories
Speer, Lonnie R., Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War, (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, c1997), contains the history of Union and Confederate prisons. . Other libraries.