How many prisoners died in Civil War stockades may never be known for sure, but it’s estimated that of the 400,000 soldiers taken prisoner in Northern and Southern prisons between 1861 and 1865 ...

This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

Another wave of 2,450 Confederate prisoners were sent to the camp in April 1862, Keller wrote. Nearly 30,000 Confederate prisoners were housed at Camp Douglas through the end of the war in 1865.

About 800 Confederate POWs were briefly housed in a Lafayette slaughterhouse after the Battle of Fort Donelson. Lafayette ...

The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities specifically intended to house war captives during times of conflict.

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 of its prisoners died from malnutrition, diseases and other causes.

PIX Now - Morning Edition 5/14/24 12:03. The remains of a U.S. Army soldier from Northern California who died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II have been accounted for ...

But archaeological evidence from another Civil War prison camp, Johnson’s Island, Ohio, in Lake Erie, where Union forces held Confederate prisoners from 1862 to 1865, suggests that wasn’t ...

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.

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 ...