1 Apr. 11, June 1863-Apr. 1862 44 191 Ledger of Prisoners Accounts, June-Aug. 1862 45 192 Register of Money Sent to Prisoner?-. Fitting comment by General Stonewall Jackson, Deaths of Prisoners of War Large numbers of Federal troops were captured during the Camden Expedition, especially during the fighting at Poison Spring and Marks Mills. For more information, contact 501-918-3025 orcalsfoundation@cals.org. I recommend reviewing the first few pages ofreel 0001 which gives an overview of the entire series and will guide you to the correct section for your interest. The first guard force for Rock Island was the 4th Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps. 1863-Aug. 1864 314 A.R. 8;472 Apr.-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0106 General Registers of Prisoners:338 G.R. Civil War - Confederate and Union Prisoners of War 3;75 1863-65 198 A.R. Water was supplied by a steam-pump, which drew water from the river nearby. Helping you find your way to Genealogy information. The lists provide the following information about each prisoner: name, rank, regiment, company, date and place of capture, and remarks. It was described by their builder as "put up in the roughest and cheapest manner, mere shanties, with no fine work about them." Prisoners of war - Civil War Family Located on page 14120 is James T. Reeves, Grave #1, buried south of Prison Barracks. 1865 119 A.R. 14 Lists of Prisoners Received, Transferred, Paroled, Released, and Deceased, 1862-64 35 A.R. 1865 118 A.R. The best-known example was in June 1864 when the USS Queen City was attacked and destroyed by a Confederate cavalry unit at Clarendon (Monroe County). Eventually, it sat on 12 acres of land that included prisoner barracks, guard barracks, officers' quarters, administration buildings, supply buildings, and several hospitals. The first prisoners, taken at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, arrived from Chattanooga in December 1863. 24 Unidentified Name Index, [n.d.], [ digital copy ] Reel 0065 Eljnira, N.Y. General Registers of Prisoners: 218 G.R. All of the men were eventually exchanged in Virginia, and most served with the Army of Tennessee for the remainder of the war. Civil War Confederate Prisoners 1861 to 1865 - Ancestry Paths for a death rate of 10% a month, more than any other Civil War prison in any 1-month period. These are hand written documents andunfortunately there is not a singlecomprehensive index. Names in alphabetical order by state. He later also served in the Union navy. The troops at the arsenal were escorted by the Little Rock Capital Guards to Fletchers Landing, where they remained for four days until a steamboat arrived to transport them to St. Louis, Missouri. Do not sell or share my personal information. Prisoners of War (Civil War) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas 1;292* Consolidated Morning Reports of Prisoners and Register of Burials, Dec. 1864-June 1865 408 A.R. 14 List of Prisoners Transferred From Camp Chase, Aug. 1863- June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0027 66 A.R. Prisoners captured by Union forces in the state often found themselves at the Arkansas State Prison in Little Rock. 1864- May 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0110 Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C. Letters Sent Relating to Prisoners:336 A.R. The Battle of Helena marked another large capture of Confederate troops in the state, with 1,100 men taken prisoner after the battle. Additional support provided by the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation Inc. 1863-July 1865 313 A.R. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0017 Stationery Returns, Mar. Their Compiled Service Records are held at the National Archives and are now available online at Fold3. Prisoner laborers were paid between 5 cents for for laborers and 10 cents for mechanics, per day, allowing them to buy food, and packages from home supplemented their clothing allowance. First Name: State: Confederate Prisoners at Union Prison Camps Galvanized Yankees "Galvanized Yankees" were Confederate Prisoners of War who gained their release from prison by enlisting in the Union Army. 25 Name Index to Letters Sent, 1864 217 A.R. The system worked only sporadically from that time until the end of the war. 4 1862-64 Fort Columbus, N.Y. 103 304 Register of Prisoners, Mar.-Sept. 1862, [ digital copy ] Reel 0038 Department of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. The first groups of prisoners arrived at the prison on December 3, 1863. . The register is generally organized alphabetically by name of prison or hospital and then alphabetically by name of the deceased. 4;162 Reports of Prisoners Received, Transferred, and Released, July 1864-Sept. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0083 277 A.R. MCHS objects 1938-068-0002 (key) and 1938-068-0001 (padlock). 28;402 No. 4, Mar. 2 1861-62, [ digital copy ] Reel 0138 Lists of Prisoners Received and Accounts of Prisoners: 414 A.R. 4 Register of Officer Prisoners, Apr, 1863-Aug. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0045 Register of Prisoners in Prison Division: 117 A.R. Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison. Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp In 1862, the island was converted into an Union arsenal. Over the following twenty months the camp housed over 12,000 prisoners of war from the South of whom almost 2,000 would perish there. Sons of Confederate Veterans. Many thanks to Sandy, Doug, D. John Trull, 1-3, 1864-65 157-Virginia, Maryland, and Mississippi Organizations in Prison Divisions Nos. 10;66 Memoranda Book, 1862 215 A.R.23;71 Miscellaneous Record Book, 1862: List of Stolen Articles, June 1862 List of Articles Taken From Prisoners in the Search of Their Quarters, June 1862 Letters Received by the Provost Marshals Office, June-Aug. 1862 Lists of Packages Received for and Delivered to Prisoners, July-Sept. 1862 List of Kitchen Equipment, 1862 List of White Oak Guards, 1862 List of Passes Issued, 1862 216 A.R. Adj. Abandoned in 1865. The prisoners cooked their own food. 10 1862-63 59 27 Mar.-June 1862 Report of Lieutenant Colonel Hunter in Charge of Transferring a Party of Prisoners to Sandusky, Ohio, Apr. 4 Register of Deaths, Jan. 1864- June 1865 Registers of Burials: 67 A.R. If you can, provide 1-2 sources of information backing up this correction. Those who were held for the remainder of the war were sent to prison camps far from the front lines. Of the thirty-one military prisoner-of-war camps in the Union, four were located in this state: Alton; Camp Butler, in Springfield; Camp Douglas, in Chicago; and Rock Island. 2, (July 1974), Seton of Parbroath, in Scotland and America, C.T.C. Rock Island's 12-acre prison compound was surrounded by a ditch and a 12-foot-high plank fence punctuated with guard towers. 1, [n.d.] 380 239 Register of Express Packages and Registered Letters Received for Prisoners, July l86k- June 1865 List of Prisoners Money, June 186*4 Feb. 1865 381 255 Register of the Receipt and Delivery of Express Packages for Prisoners and of Packages Received From Prisoners for Shipping by the Adams Express Co., 1865 List of Unclaimed Boxes Sent to Prisoners, Apr.-May 1865 Registers of the Receipt and Delivery of Packages to Prisoners; 382 257 Nov. 1863-Mar. 15 No. list), Official Records of the "War of Rock Island was a government-owned island in the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. The Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry was captured at the Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee in February 1862, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Arkansas Infantry regiments and the Fourth Arkansas Battalion were captured at Island No. 1864-June 1865 164-Register of Patients Admitted to the Prison Hospital, Jan.- July 1864 List of Clothing Belonging to Officers in the Hospital, 1864 List of Kitchen Workers, 1864 List of Clothing Issued to Bakers, Sept. 1864 165-Register of Patients Admitted to the Prison Hospital, July 1864- May 1865 166 A.R. He was a member of Company A, 24th Alabama Infantry Regiment. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Major support provided through a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. A kitchen was built into each barracks. 2 July 1863-Dec. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0089 Louisville, Ky., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners: 294 G.R. The database is comprised of four National Archives (NARA) microfilm series (M1303, M598, M2702, and M918). 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0112 Point Lookout, Md., Military Prison Letters Sent Relating to Prisoners:353 246 Nov. 1864 -Sept. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0113 General Registers of Prisoners:354 G.R.1(pt. 19, July 1863-Mar. 10;393 No. No new records were added. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0019 Consolidated Morning Reports of Prisoners:39- 179 June 1864-June 1865 40 -190 Morning Reports of Patients and Attendants in the Prison Hospital, June-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0020 41 187 Guardhouse Reports, Register of Passes, Requisitions for Clothing and Supplies, and List of Sentenced Prisoners, 1862 42 A.R. The Galvanized Yankees. These troops were sent to Alton, Illinois, where they were held in a former prison. . Updates: 29;403 No. Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors. United States, Records of Confederate Prisoners of War - FamilySearch 3:79 29 1863 80 26 [n.d.] 81 20; CC 20 [n.d.] 82 52 [n.d.] 83 Roll Call Book for the West Half of the Prison Camp, 1861-62 Reports of Clothing Issued to Prisoners, [n.d.] Unidentified List Showing Organizations, [n.d.] Unidentified List of Prisoners, [n.d.], [ digital copy ] Reel 0030 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts:84 77* 1862-63, [ digital copy ] Reel 0031 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts: 85 10; CC 10 1864-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0032 86 16 Journal of Prisoners Accounts, Nov. 1861*-June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0033 Stubs of Prisoners Receipts: 87 25 Aug. 1863-Jan. 1864 88 19 Aug. 1864-Jan. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0034 Stubs of Prisoners Receipts: 89 17 Sept.-Nov. 1864 90 48 Nov.-Dec. 1864 91 33 Dec. 1864-Jan. 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0035 Stubs of Prisoners Receipts: 92 38 Jan.-Feb. 1865 93 39 Feb.-Mar. Rations were issued in bulk at the prison. An artist's rendering shows what the Rock Island Prison Barracks looked like during the Civil War. For more information about the 2 General Register of Prisoners, Dec. 1864 -May 1865 290 1 Register of Prisoners, Sept. 1863- Feb. 1865 7;291 3 Register of Political and Other Prisoners, 1864-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0088 Louisville, Ky., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners: 292 G.R. Voices of the Civil War. prisoner of war at Rock Island Prison Barracks, 1868. by Lafayette Rogan. 2* 1863-64, [ digital copy ] Reel 0058 Registers of Prisoners : 197 A.R. 1938 The prisoners were immediately beset by a smallpox epidemic that sickened thousands and killed more than 600 within 3 months. These prisoners were typically taken to the nearest military outpost by their captors and informally exchanged or paroled when possible. Inscription on the UDC Monument Confederate Graves; Rock Island, IL - NCGenWeb The Rock Island Civil War Prison: Andersonville of the North? When a tribute gift is given the honoree will receive a letter acknowledging your generosity and a bookplate will be placed in a book. 2 1863-64 109 G.R. Rebellion, (c) Dec. 1996 4;468 Register of Prisoners Captured in Aug. 1864 and Disposition, 1864-65 342 A.R. About 125 were captured at Poison Spring, and around 1,200 were captured at Marks Mills. PDF Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861 1865 - Archives List of Confederate prisoners by state interned at Rock Island, Illinois, 1863-1865 Statement of Responsibility: compiled by H. Hilburn Berry from miscellaneous papers found at Rock Island Arsenal Authors: Berry, H. Hilburn (Main Author) Rock Island Arsenal (Rock Island, Illinois) (Added Author) Format: Manuscript/Manuscript with Digital Images Elmira's Civil War prison camp operated from July 6, 1864, until July 11, 1865, incarcerating a total of 12,121 Confederates. 9 No. The remaining part of the barrack was to be the sleeping/living quarters for the prisoners. Captain Julius Welch Camp 229 Chicago, Illinois. Another member of the regiment escaped from the prison at Rock Island, Illinois. Generally, catalog entries are written in the same language as the original record they describe. Of these, 730 were transferred to other stations . The Rock Island Prison Camp was designed to hold more than 10,000 inmates at any one time, and over the final 18 months of the war, more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners passed through its gates. Rock Island was previously used as the summer camp site for Sauk Native Americans, and the dispute over tribal ownership led to the Black Hawk War of 1832, after the primary leader of the Sauk, Black Hawk. 3, ca. 1863, [ digital copy ] Reel 0025 Descriptive Lists of Prisoners: 58 A.R. 61 Jan.-July 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0048 169 435 Ledger of Prisoners Accounts, July-Dec. 1863 List of Registered Letters, Oct.- Nov. 1863 List of Charges on Express Packages, [n.d.] Memoranda Relating to Mail, [n.d.] List of Names of Prisoners and Sums of Money, July-Nov. 1863 Ledgers of Prisoners Accounts: 170 436 Dec. 1863-Apr. 1 General Register of Prisoners, Apr. It contained eighty-four barracks that held 10,080 prisoners. Six hundred and forty-seven thousand prisoners were captured by the North and South in the Civil War. 3 Apr.-May 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0042 Registers of Prisoners Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 110 OCGP 2 1863-64, [ digital copy ] Reel 0043 Registers of Prisoners Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 111 OCGP 3 1864-65 112 OCGP 4 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0044 Registers of Prisoners Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 113 A.R. -Sept. 1864 404- Sept. 1864- July 1865 1*05 269* Memoranda and Blotter Book Relating to Accounts of Prisoners, Jan. l861*-May 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0136 Ship Island, Miss. Entire regiments were formed from these prisoners and saw action on the western frontier against Native Americans. 61 July-Aug. 1862 203 A.R. Registers of Prisoners: 105 2 1863-64 106 4 1864-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0040 Fort Delaware, Del., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners: 107 4 1863, [ digital copy ] Reel 0041 Fort Delaware, Del., Military Prison General Registers of Prisoners: 108 G.R. 1864 123 A.R. Microfilm series M1303 contains records relating to Federal or Union POWs that were held by Confederate authorities at Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia between February 1864 and April 1865. The microfilm may have been scanned, but have a contractual, data privacy, or other restriction preventing access. 2 Feb. 1863-July 1865 26 G.R. Camp Dennison, Ohio Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, Mo. 24;398 No. Seven Confederate Knights-Chapter 2625- 1965 Diary of Lafayette Rogan, C.S.A. Officers were typically held longer than enlisted men but were often eventually released. Little Rock, AR. 12; A.R. 1865 Permits Granted by the Commissary General of Prisoners for Furnishing Clothing to Prisoners 15a-Nov. 1864-Mar. Attention: This site does not support the current version of your web browser. Yet, even though the new camp was not ready, 5,000 Confederate prisoners were delivered there in December 1863, when the temperature was 32 degrees below zero. 1865 127 A.R. 1865 307 G.R. Remembering the Rock Island Prisoner Barracks 3 May-July 1865 347 A.R. The Film/Digital Notes contain a description of the microfilm or microfiche numbers. Sons of Confederate Veterans 17-19, 1864-65 Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and North Carolina Organizations in Various Prison Divis Ions:154 A.R. When finished, it consisted of eighty-four barracks, 82 . 7;165* Receipt Stubs for Prisoners Money, July 1865 279 A.R. 1864 205 A.R. This item is available on microfilm at this FamilySearch center. Other information on the site includes histories of Union and Confederate regiments, links to descriptions of significant battles, and selected lists of prisoner-of-war records . Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp - mycivilwar.com 6;470 Aug.-Dec. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0105 New Orleans, La. The first groups of prisoners arrived at the prison on December 3, 1863. 26;400 No. In addition to their names, information that may be listed for each soldier includes regiment, company, and rank. Here are 20 facts about that dark period in the city's history to mark its 150th anniversary this month: . Paroles on the field accounted for 264,000 of this total. 1) A-K, 1863-64 355 (pt. The end of the war saw the largest loss of life of prisoners of war in the state. Arkansas was the site of more than 700 military engagements during the Civil War. 22, 1865 135 A.R. 7; H-R, 1862 A.R. Washington, DC: National Archives . 1863-May 1865 320 G.R. Of those housed here, about 2,000 died from deprivation, smallpox, pneumonia, and other medical ailments at an average of about 4 per day for the 572 days the prison was in operation. African-American troops were not present at Marks Mills, but a large group of freedmen accompanying the Union force was likewise attacked after the battle, and many were killed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. 8; R-Z, 1862 A.R. Registers of Prisoners: 104 1 1862-63, [ digital copy ] Reel 0039 Department of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn.
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