But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps ... prisoner in Northern and Southern ...

Elmira College is teaming with the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp to present an inaugural Civil War symposium Aug. 4-6 at the college and other locations, officials announced Wednesday.

Keller's 2015 book, "The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison." In February 1862 ... the Missouri Compromise limiting the northern geographical reach of slavery, and ...

Camp Butler National Cemetery is a place to remembers soldiers of more than a century ago and honor the veterans of today.

One grandson, Silvestre, fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War and was taken prisoner. He suffered terribly in a northern prisoner-of-war camp and returned to Victoria a broken man.

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...