Union Prisoner of War Records

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

Confederate Prisons for Union Soldiers
Prisoner of war records of Union prisoners are described in The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Worldcat) by Henry Putney Beers. Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners are described on pages 247–59.

Andersonville Confederate Prison Records, 1864-1865
The "Selected Records of the War Department Commissary General of Prisoners Relating to Federal Prisoners of War Confined at Andersonville, GA, 1864-65" (NARA M1303) is a collection of registers, lists, returns, reports, and indexes that relate to Union prisoners of war that were held in the prison at Camp Sumter, Andersonville, GA, February 1864 to April 1865. The records include 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.

Online


 * Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 (Ancestry) ($) (note: this database also contains Confederate Prisoner of War Records M598, M2072, and M918)
 * Civil War Prisons - Andersonville is searchable by name and gives rank, company, regiment, date and location captured, date and cause of death, fate, and remarks.

Libraries


 * Locate these records at a library using Worldcat.
 * Family History Library

Related Books

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