Prisoner Lists

[debwallsmith]

Did any states publish lists of prisoners after the war? I've successfully identified 91% (n=3600) Camp Lawton/Millen POWs in the database but still have 350+ that I'm still looking for. Looking for sources outside of the usual - Better Soldiers and Sailors, American CW Database, Fold3, Civil War Prisoners, etc. - all of which I have gone through many times now. I realize that I probably won't be able to confirm all of the 3956 identities but I'm just stubborn enough to keep trying.

 

[James Brenner]

Did you try looking up the individual camps? The reason I ask is because johnsonsisland.org has published a roster of Confederate POWs from 1862 to 1864 and placed it on line. Maybe there are similar organizations for other POW camps.

 

[debwallsmith]

Did you try looking up the individual camps? The reason I ask is because johnsonsisland.org has published a roster of Confederate POWs from 1862 to 1864 and placed it on line. Maybe there are similar organizations for other POW camps.

There are no known records for Camp Lawton other than possibly a list of the dead. I have piecemealed the list of POWs from the Andersonville departure ledgers and from diaries and other personal accounts. As I mentioned, I have exhausted all of the "usual suspects" and am searching for less well known state post-war summaries/accounts.

 

[LtGenHenryWagerHalleck]

They certainly had to document paroles

Liber code (General Order 100)
Art. 124
Breaking the parole is punished with death when the person breaking the parole is captured again.

Accurate lists, therefore, of the paroled persons must be kept by the belligerents.

 

[debwallsmith]

They certainly had to document paroles

Liber code (General Order 100)
Art. 124
Breaking the parole is punished with death when the person breaking the parole is captured again.

Accurate lists, therefore, of the paroled persons must be kept by the belligerents.

No one stated that there were no records kept, only that the whereabouts of those records are unknown. The records were packed up in a wine box and "directed, through the adjutant general of Georgia, at Augusta, to General Winder, at Columbia, South Carolina." It is not known whether Winder received them or what happened to them after they were delivered to the train station in Waynesboro.

 

[Gary Morgan]

Sort of. Mass and New Hampshire published books that listed every soldier who fought for their state many years later. You can look up the individual prison names. Mass. is a 9 volume set. Tufts has an online copy.

 

[debwallsmith]

Sort of. Mass and New Hampshire published books that listed every soldier who fought for their state many years later. You can look up the individual prison names. Mass. is a 9 volume set. Tufts has an online copy.

Thanks. I need to do a formal "academic" online search but was being lazy. I'm also procrastinating about start the next publication. Hope you enjoyed your time at Andersonville.