Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camps and Military Prisons

Work in progress

This master project will be the portal listing the various Confederate POW camps and prisons, and those who were prisoners and guards.

List of prisoner-of-war camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_...

• Camp Ford – near Tyler, Texas - 5,300
• Camp Groce - Hempstead, Texas - 600 - 1,100
• Camp Oglethorpe - Macon, Georgia 1,200
• Florence Stockade - Florence, South Carolina - 15,000 to 18,000 Union soldiers

(Numbers for inmate totals are approximate.[22])

List of Military Prisons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_...

• Andersonville – Andersonville, Georgia - 45,000 - 50,000
• Belle Isle – Richmond, Virginia - 18,000
• Blackshear Prison – Blackshear, Georgia - 5,000
• Cahaba Prison (Castle Morgan) – Selma, Alabama - 600
• Castle Pinckney – Charleston, South Carolina - 300
• Castle Sorghum – Columbia, South Carolina - 1,400
• Castle Thunder – Richmond, Virginia - 1,400
• Danville Prison – Danville, Virginia - 4,000
• Florence Stockade – Florence, South Carolina - 18,000
• Fort Pulaski – Savannah, Georgia - 600
• Libby Prison – Richmond, Virginia - 50,000
• Salisbury Prison – Salisbury, North Carolina - 1,700
• Millen Prison - Millen, Georgia - 10,000+ (Numbers for inmate totals are approximate.[22])

References and links

• "American Civil War: POW camp at Andersonville ". New York Times, about-com. Retrieved 17 November 2010.