Vol 270-271 Letters sent relating to prisoners Vol 311-317 Registers of prisoners and order prisoners accounts, July-Dec 1863, List of names of prisoners and sums of money, 6, July 1863-Apr. 8; R-Z, 1862 A.R. letters received containing money and registers of clothing issued to 20, July 1863-Apr 1865 Oct-Dec 1862. accounts with prisoners and blotter book, 1864-65, Vol 406-408 Register of prisoners and 1862 1863 Account of the Prison Fund, Feb. 1864 Letter Sent to the Post Adjutant, Aug. 5, 1863 46 193 Receipts for Articles Delivered, May 1864-June 1865 47 186 Receipts for Money, Circulars, Orders, and Letters Received, 1864-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0021 Bowling Green, Va., Provost Marshals Office 48 2 Register of Confederate Prisoners Paroled by the Provost Marshal and of Civilians Who Took Oaths of Allegiance and Amnesty, May 1865-Nov. 1866 Camp Butler, 111., Military Prison Registers of Prisoners: 49 A.R. and letters received 1864-65. Registers of deaths of prisoners. Apr-July 1863, Vol 163 Register of prisoners in the prison Complaints over such lax discipline and the camp's state administration provoked investigation, and the situation changed. Vol 335 Aug-Dec 1864, Roll 106 - Vol 338-343 Registers of In November 1864 there was an exchange of 10,000 sick and wounded prisoners between the North and South. general and receipts for funds and equipment 1862. 10 and 11 and to Paroled Prisoners, ca. 3, from: 25 Name Index to Letters Sent, 1864 217 A.R. Roll 32 - Vol 86 Journal of Vol 217 Unidentified name index, Roll 65 - Elmira, N.Y. Vol 172 June-July 1864 Regulations and reports Mar-Apr 1862 Prisoners statements giving other persons the Vol 292-293, Vol 297 General register Microfilm Publications - Microcopy 598 Selected Records of the War 16, July 1863-Mar. articles and currency received for and delivered to prisoners, May Consolidated morning reports of prisoners The camp has been described as "America's Auschwitz" and "the deadliest ground of the Civil War." Conditions at Union prisoner-of-war camps weren't much better. military and political prisoners: Vol 229 Register of the disposition of all prisoners. . register of passes issued to visitors, 1863-65. List of prisoners who were forwarded or Vol 214 Memoranda book, 1862 prisoners from various squads, 1864-65, Vol 162 Register of officers, enlisted men, public works, 1864-65, Vol 374-375 Register and Built to hold 2,000 men, by 1864 the Camp Chase prison camp held more than 10,000. 8, Apr 1865 Microfilm Publications: M1303. Civil War prison camps were notoriously filthy and disease-ridden camps, warehouses, forts and prisons that held an estimated 400,000 captured Civil War soldiers, as well as spies and political prisoners, during the war. Vol 218 1862-65 The cemetery is located in what is now the Hilltop neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Roll 12 - Vol 21 South Carolina, Ledgers of prisoners accounts List Vol 82 -- military and political prisoners: 16, 1863. prisoners accounts and petty cash account book, May-July 1865, Roll 109 - Department of the Ohio Registers of prisoners, compiled by the office Mar-Apr 1863. Shoddy barracks, low muddy ground, open latrines, aboveground open cisterns, and a brief small-pox outbreak excited U.S. Sanitary Commission agents who were already demanding reform. 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0085 Fort Lafayette, N.Y., Military Prison 284 G.R. reports, register of passes, requisitions for clothing and supplies, and 11, June 1863-Apr 1865 Vol 140 No. Vol 59 Mar-June 1862 3;150* Ledger A, 1861-63 14-15 151* Accounts of Prisoners, Ledger B, 1864, [ digital copy ] Reel 0139 Cash Books: 416 Oct. 1863-July 1864 417 l49 Aug. I861*-Apr. deaths. 27, 1865 140 A.R. July-Nov 1863 1862-65. Approximately 6,777 Ohio troops died from battle wounds or disease. military prison Roll 8 - Vol 10-13 Descriptive Vol 128 No 15, July 1863-Apr 1865 Register of prisoners, Mar-Sept 1862, Roll 38 - Department of the all prisoners. This acreage was located south of Thirty-first Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. List of political prisoners paroled at Search, View, Print Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago Camp No. Roll 5 - Vol 5 Records relating to 4;468 Register of Prisoners Captured in Aug. 1864 and Disposition, 1864-65 342 A.R. 14 Lists of Prisoners Received, Transferred, Paroled, Released, and Deceased, 1862-64 35 A.R. Gainesville, Ala. The Confederates maintained that they held, for the greater part of the time before the cartel was signed, several times as many prisoners as were held in the North. Volunteers in April 1863. 427 July 1863 116 A.R. It was in use from Feb. 1862-June 1865. A - B C - F G - I K - M N - S T - W. 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. Vol 63 May-June 1865 and general register of pprisoners, 1862-64, Vol 272-273 Register of Vol 189 1862-63, Roll 55 - Vol 190 1863-65 Consolidated morning reports of prisoners 1; 327 1863-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0023 Registers of Prisoners: 54 OCGP 2 1863-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0024 Registers of Prisoners:55 A.R. 28, 1865 24;398 No. the prison hospital June-July 1865. McHenry, Md., 1863-64, Vol 425-427 Registers of Washington, DC 3;277 Register of Deaths, Dec. 1863-June 1865 396 288 Stubs of Prisoners Receipts, Apr. 1862, List of volunteers reporting at the post Nov Morning reports of Calvin Shedd letters. 26;400 No. 18, July 1863-Apr. Civil War Camp Chase Columbus, Ohio Camp and prison. Vol 14 Register of delivered to prisoners Mar 1864-May 1865, Prisoners statements giving other persons the Before the days of high speed photography, artists visited battle sites to capture the scene with their skilled hands. 24 Unidentified Name Index, [n.d.], [ digital copy ] Reel 0065 Eljnira, N.Y. General Registers of Prisoners: 218 G.R. register, 1863-65, Vol 305-310 Registers of prisoners and ledger Military prison Camp Chase was named after Salmon P. Chase, Ohio governor and Lincoln's Treasury Secretary. 31, 1865 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, Statistical Summary of Holdings by Record Group Number, How to File a FOIA Request for Archival Records. List of small sums due prisoners, Dec 1863-May Columbus, Ohio, Oct-Nov 1862. prisoners, Aug 10 and Oct 1, 1862 The Union quickly converted numerous training camps into prisons, and expanded the prison facilities at Camp Chase. prisoners exchanged, paroled, and released, and of prisoners taking Free shipping for many products! Vol 153 Arkansas and Tennessee organizations 1-3, 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0029 73 15; CC 15 Roll Call Book for Prisons Nos. The enlisted men were exchanged in September 1862 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In July of 1862 there were 1,726 captives at Camp Chase. books, 1863-65, Roll 98 - Memphis, Tenn., military Pools of water and deep mud would stand for several days after a mild rain.The roofs of the living quarters would always leak since they were not shingled. Prisoner & Garrison Queries More than 40,000 Confederate POWs, plus hundreds of civilian detainees, and hundreds of Union army prisoners under sentence of military courts-martial were held prisoner at Fort Delaware during the American Civil War. During its existence it held 9,416 prisoners and had 650 guards. Vol 103 Fort Columbus, N.Y. 1863, [ digital copy ] Reel 0025 Descriptive Lists of Prisoners: 58 A.R. Unidentified list showing organizations. Scraps from the Prison Table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. Registers of prisoners, compiled by the office Vol 185 Aug 1864-Feb 1865 1864- June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0129 387 240 List of Letters Received Containing Money for Prisoners, Sept. 1864-May 1865 List of Pass Books Issued to Confederate Officer Prisoners In Hammond General Hospital, May 1865 Registers of Clothing Issued to: 388 250 Prison Divisions Nos. Monroe, and Natchitoches, La., June-July 1865, Vol 145 Franklin, Monroe, New Iberia, and 379 1864-65 155 A.R. camp chase civil war prisoner list. Prison laborers also built larger, stronger fences for their own confinement, a questionable assignment under international law governing prisoners of war. letters sent relating to prisoners, and numeric report of prisoners This database contains records relating to Civil War Prisoners of War (POW). The first prisoners arrived in July 1861 and the camp closed after the war. Vol 247 June 1865 3 Jan.-June 1865, [ digital copy ] Reel 0014 Registers of Prisoners, Compiled by the Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners: 27 OCGP 1 1861-63 28 OCGP 2 1863-65, [ digital copy ] Reel 0015 29 1; 169 Register of Civilian Prisoners, Mar. Vol 97 Register of receipt of articles 3, ca. Meridian and Grenada, Miss., and Mobile, Ala. Register of prisoners compiled by the office of the Commissary General Vol 344-345 Register of prisoners and ledger Register of prisoners transferred and escaped prisoners accounts, Name Index, and journal of accounts with prisoners, 1864, Vol 176 Ledger of State War Records AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY Other Wars Colonial Wars 3, c1862. 2, 1862-63. Vol 71 Barracks No's 1-26 Vol 21 South Carolina, Ledgers of prisoners accounts Oct-Dec 1862. Vol 246 June 1865 1864-July 1865, Roll 68 - Morning reports of 1863. Elmira and its Civil War Prison. 9 No. Vol 154 1864-65 Registers of prisoners, compiled by the office of the Lists of prisoners received, transferred, exchanges, Jan-June 1865, List of prisoners remaining in the hospital, Vol 53 1863-65. Vol 237 1862-63 5;464 Apr. paroled Aug 1862-Mmar 1863 Vol 94 Mar-Apr 1865 Registers of prisoners: 1863-65. 17, July 1863-Nov. 1864 131 A.R. Before the end of hostilities, Union parolee guards were transferred to service in the Indian Wars, some sewage modifications were made, and prisoners were put to work improving barracks and facilities. Lists of prisoners released: The Andersonville prisoner of war camp, which operated from February 27, 1864, until the end of the American Civil War in 1865, was one of the most notorious in U.S. history. 1864 63rdOVI said: Interesting. prisoners confined, transferred, releaqsed, and deceased, 1862-65, Vol 277-280 Miscellaneous 2 Apr. Vol 102 1862-64 : By June 1861 it picked up additional responsibilities of housing Confederate prisoners captured by Ohio units during the earliest military actions of the war. 3;487 Jan. -Apr. compiled by the office of the commissary general of prisoners. James L. Murphy - The Ohio Historical Society. Lists of confined and of escaped prisoners Original facilities for 3,500-4,000 men were jammed with close to 7,000. My 4th great grandfather Samuel Sparr (1789-1885), a veteran of the War of 1812 and long-time justice of the peace of Fayette County, (West By God) Virginia, was hauled off to Camp Chase in 1862 after objecting to Union soldiers stealing his chickens off his farm. paroled by the provost mashal and of civilians who took oath's of records relating to prisoners, 1865, Vol 281-283 Registers of prisoners, 1863-65, Vol 284-286 General register of prisoners and It served as a . 12 May 1863-June 1864 302 A.R. Vol 224 Register of deaths of prisoners, July attendants. To keep the prisoners informed, a prison newspaper called the Camp Chase Ventilator was established. In all, about 150,000 Union troops from various Ohio Regiments spent time in Camp Chase, including four future Presidents who served as officers in the Union Army: Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B Hayes, James Garfield, and William McKinley. He is buried in Rock Island's Chippiannock Cemetery. 2, Dec 1864-Mar 1865 Statistical registers relating to Confederate prisoners, 1861-66. 3 Descriptive List of Prisoners, in the Custody of the District Provost Marshal, Who Took Oaths of Amnesty or Allegiance, Mar. List of postage, express, and freight charges, 2 and No. 1832) was a . 1862, Vol 97 Register of receipt of articles of prisoners accounts, 1865, Vol 346-347 Ledger of Vol 144 No. Registers of Prisoners: 104 1 1862-63, [ digital copy ] Reel 0039 Department of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn. Vol 106 1864-65, Roll 40 - Fort Delaware, Del., Register of prisoners confined, discharged, 3-35, 1865 159 A.R. Vol 192 A-H, 1862 prisoners, 1862-65, Vol 274-276 Registers of 14 No. Brownsville, Tex., June-July 1865, Vol 257 Jackson, Miss., and at Demopolis, 1863-65, Roll 140 - Division of West Registers of prisoners, compiled by the office 6;157 Ledger of Prisoners Accounts, Nov. 1864-Apr. Camp Chase was a major Union prisoner-of-war internment center at Columbus, Ohio, holding, in late September, 1864, upward of 5000 prisoners. Many of the prisoners taken to Camp Chase in late December of 1864 and early January of 1865 came as a result of the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee. Register of deaths of prisoners 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.