This page collects all the posts on Prisoners of War during the Civil War.
In 1865 Northern Newspapers Were Filled With Atrocity Stories from Andersonville Prison
The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison by David L. Keller
I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison
The Role of African Americans as Guards Is Missing from POW Studies
The Yankee Plague Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy by Lorien Foote
Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory by Benjamin G. Cloyd
When the Confederates Planned to Blow Up Libby Prison to Kill the Prisoners in the Event of a Raid
Following Imprisonment Under Black Soldiers, Confederate Officer Advocates Recruitment of Blacks
Paintings of Prison Life at Point Lookout by a Captive Confederate
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield
Visiting Elmira Prison Camp and Cemetery
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael Gray
Do We Ignore Prisoners of War When We Study the Civil War
Map of Elmira Prison Made by a Confederate Soldier Imprisoned There
Crossing the Deadlines: Civil War Prisons Reconsidered by Michael P. Gray
Civil War Prisons edited by William B. Hesseltine
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