US Civil War: War Between the States POW CAMPS
Location: USA
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Both United States of America (Union) and Confederate States of America (Confederate) POW Camps.
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Wiki Tree Civil War Resources
POW Categories:
- US Civil War: War Between the States RESOURCE PAGE
- US Civil War: War Between the States POW Camp Images
- US Civil War: War Between the States Photo Space
- US Civil War: War Between the States -West Virginia Resource Page
Prisons Types
The 150 prisons can be grouped into 7 classes. They are as follows:
- 1.Existing jails and prisons- first to come into use, ranged in size from small city jails to medium sized county jails to large state prisons
- 2.Coastal fortifications- second to be pressed into use, mostly in the North, were forts along the Atlantic Ocean
- 3.Old buildings converted into prisons- used mainly in the South
- 4.Barracks enclosed by high fences- these were groups of wooden buildings on a large plot of land previously used as basic-training camps or rendevous points for recruits. High fences were later built around the camps to enclose/confine the prisoners. Existed mostly in the North
- 5.Clusters of tents enclosed by high fences- one of the cheapest types
- 6.Barren stockades- cheapest and worst of the 7 types. Exclusively used in the South
- 7.Barren ground- nothing more than gathering of prisoners on barren ground surrounded with a guardline[1]
Images
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Point Lookout POW Camp, Point Lookout, Maryland.
CONFEDERATE POW CAMPS
Category:
- Andersonville (Camp Sumter) Andersonville, Georgia
- Belle Isle Richmond, Virginia
- Blackshear Prison Blackshear, Georgia
- Cahaba Prison (Castle Morgan) Selma, Alabama
- Camp Ford Tyler, Texas
- Camp Groce Hempstead, Texas
- Camp Lawton, Millen, Georgia
- Camp Oglethorpe Macon, Georgia
- Castle Pinckney Charleston, South Carolina
- Castle Sorghum Columbia, South Carolina
- Castle Thunder Richmond, Virginia
- Danville Prison Danville, Virginia
- Florence Stockade Florence, South Carolina
- Fort Pulaski Savannah, Georgia
- Libby Prison Richmond, Virginia
- Salisbury Prison Salisbury, North Carolina
- Prisons and Places Used as Prisons in Richmond, Virginia
UNION POW CAMPS
Category:
- Atheneum Prison Wheeling, West Virginia
- Camp Alton Alton, Illinois
- Camp Chase Columbus, Ohio
- Camp Defiance Cairo, Illinois
- Camp Douglas Chicago, Illinois
- Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Elmira Prison Elmira, New York
- Fort Delaware Pea Patch Island, Delaware
- Fort McHenry Baltimore, Maryland
- Fort Columbus Governors Island, New York
- Fort Slocum Davids' Island, New York
- Fort Warren Boston, Massachusetts
- Gratiot Street Prison St. Louis, Missouri
- Johnson's Island Sandusky, Ohio
- Ohio Penitentiary Columbus, Ohio
- Old Capital Prison Washington, District of Columbia
- Point Lookout St. Mary's, Maryland
- Rock Island Prison Rock Island, Illinois
SOURCES
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