Question About POW Treatment

[TerryB]

This relates to whether there was a Confederate SOP for handling prisoners. Say you go on a raid, the object of which is to bring in prisoners. Would there have been an SOP for how to get them to the rear and to HQ for interrogation? Did they detail people from the attacking unit to take the POWs to the rear, under an officer or sergeant from the raiders? Or would they bring along an officer from HQ whose job would be to command the guards?

 

[TinCan]

After my g-g-g-grandfather was captured in Tennessee he and up to 104 of his fellow prisoners were herded along under the command of an officer I believe from the Provost Marshals.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

This relates to whether there was a Confederate SOP for handling prisoners. Say you go on a raid, the object of which is to bring in prisoners. Would there have been an SOP for how to get them to the rear and to HQ for interrogation? Did they detail people from the attacking unit to take the POWs to the rear, under an officer or sergeant from the raiders? Or would they bring along an officer from HQ whose job would be to command the guards?

A North Carolina Confederate relative of mine was seriously wounded on 4/2/65 and captured in a Richmond hospital 4/3/65. He never recovered. Took the oath in July and died a week later. One of the cards in his file says he was " turned over to the provost " on 4/14/65.

 

[Drew]

SOP? I doubt it. That sounds like bureaucratize that would have been developed much later (like a hundred years later). I'd a CSA gg grandfather shot, captured and immediately treated by Union surgeons - they cut off his leg and probably saved his life. He said he was well treated and cared for in captivity.

 

[Nathanb1]

I suspect Terry has figured out a new way to solve the Nickajack puzzle....but needs to know what process would be normally used for someone captured by the Confederate forces....

Am I correct?

 

[TerryB]

I suspect Terry has figured out a new way to solve the Nickajack puzzle....but needs to know what process would be normally used for someone captured by the Confederate forces....

Am I correct?

Yes indeed. But I'm told by reliable sources that there was no SOP. It all depended on the circumstances. I've done some rewrite to reflect that, and I like it much better now.

 

[redbob]

I would suspect that then as now, once you get the prisoners back to your lines; you turn them over to the Provost (MPs) for processing.