324. Civil War Prison Records and Histories. Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners - National Archives Map. According to a 2014 article which ran in the Des Moines Register, the camp was, primitive at best, and many of the prisoners arrived in poor physical condition.. A subscription also includes the 1890 Veterans Census listed next 1890 Census of Civil War Union Veterans and Widows, Civil War Pension Records Index for Union Soldiers (from National Archives Microfilm Publication T289), Civil War Widows Pensions (about 21% complete), Southern Claims Commission (M1407) - Records of Southerners who claimed compensation from the U.S. government in the 1870s for items used by the Union Army, Confederate Citizens File (M346) - Papers relating to citizens or business firms, 1861-65, 1860 U.S. Federal Census Index and Census Images (M653), Lincoln Assassination Papers (M599) and more, Cemeteries and Headstones - also see the state listings below, National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, The above 3 databases are included in a subscription to Ancestry's genealogy records collection, Colorado Volunteers Transcript of Record Index (1861-1865), Colorado Veterans Grave Registration Index, Georgia Confederate Pension Application Supplements, Georgia Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges, Kansas Adjutant General's Report, 1861-1865, Necrology of the Grand Army of the Republic. Civil War Roster Infantry US Gen Web Archives, Military petitions for naturalizations, 1918 FamilySearch Library, Pensioners on the Roll 1883 Genealogy Trails, Index for the Memorial Park Cemetery burials, April 1926-April 1982 : 30th Street and Blackhawk Road, Rock Island, IL WorldCat, List of Confederate prisoners by state interned at Rock Island, Illinois, 1863-1865 FamilySearch Library, List showing inscriptions on headstones for Confederate soldiers and sailors who, while prisoners of war, died at Rock Island, Illinois, and were there buried. Click here for the National Historic Landmark file: text and photographs. NOTE: There were actually a total of 1,964 Confederate Prisoners
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The island was also the site of a major prison for captured Confederate soldiers. Haywood County, NC
Our publication program covers a wide range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, Black studies, women's studies, cultural studies, music, immigration, and more. Chicago, Illinois. If a male was of the right age during the time of a war, it's possible that there are military records available. House - Moodey, John S. (John Sheldon) - Cowles, Calvin D. (Calvin Duvall). During the summer of 1863, prison camps in the North were
Description Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas). In reality, the death toll at Rock Island, though high was about 17 % of the total prisoners while more than 27% of the total prisoners incarcerated at Andersonville died. 12,000 Confederate prisoners passed through its gates. with Gen. Cullum's letter of the 16th inst. In the lower right corner: Engr. Fitting comment by General Stonewall Jackson, Deaths of Prisoners of War
the first four months alone, more than 950 Confederate soldiers
Also of interest is the Rock Island National Cemetery and the Rock Island Arsenal Museum. 14 This is the first of a series of six articles looking at the 160-year history of Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. Of those, 5,581 prisoners volunteered to join the Union as galvanized Yankees, and 1,964 died. Disease was a constant, and frequently a losing battle for both the prisoners and guards. This collection includes records of Confederate prisoners of war from the United States. Responsibility for making an independent
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ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. https://www.loc.gov/item/99447349/. Descriptive sketch of the three cities, Davenport Rock Island, and Moline, Historical memoir of the war in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 : with an atlas, - In Mitchells book, Confederate soldier Ashley Wilkes is captured by the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg and sent to Rock Island as a prisoner of war. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Sort by: Knox, R.S. U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 - Ancestry NOTE: Additional records that apply to Rock Island County are also on the Illinois Military Records page. south of the prison, but on advice from the prison surgeon, a new
(10-20-1863 . The new installation, named Fort Armstrong after John Armstrong, the Secretary of War under then-President James Madison, was built as part of a chain of western frontier defense posts that were established after the War of 1812. Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp
Roll call, Rock Island Prison BarracksPhotograph courtesy of The Rock Island Arsenal Museum, Rock Island, IllinoisNote VRC uniformed Soldiers in front, behind them prisoners are in formations by the barracks. Mitchell wrote that Wilkes family, while relieved that he was alive, were horrified that he had been sent to Rock Island, as it was viewed by many Confederate citizens as hell on earth. Upon close examination, these records are in poor condition, with
in the new burial grounds. Malnutrition and scurvy resulted from these orders contributing to the death toll of Confederate prisoners at Rock Island Prison. Role 2-Vol 2. all prisoners. 2 General Register of Prisoners, Volume 394 - Register of Prisoners, 1862-65 Gillespie, Carter W. (9-9-1863) 2. Union troops began construction of a new prison camp on an island
While visiting, please be mindful that our national cemeteries are hallowed ground. The first Soldiers interned here were Union soldiers that died while serving as guards. were downloaded from the Department's database on July 2, 2000,
Page headings include the following information: company & regiment, where captured, state, date of capture, when confined, when released. Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate He had been wounded and taken prisoner, and the records showed that he was at Rock Island, a prison camp in Illinois. Rock Island Confederate Cemetery is the only surviving remnant of a massive prison camp that once held thousands of Confederate soldiers. For example, if you are . : 1995.040.00.0003 gsl card not found 2006-09-28 vj05 LAC tnb 2020-09-24 no Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Latour, Arsne Lacarrire, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4104r.cw0215000. Visitors to the Rock Island Confederate Cemetery may also be interested in the Rock Island Arsenal. - Many thanks to Sandy, Doug, D. John Trull,
The island was far away from the fighting, owned by the government, sparsely occupied, and secure. The first guard force for Rock Island was the 4th Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps. For some Civil War cemetery burials in Virginia, see. Also, over During the twenty months, the active period of the prison, 12,409 prisoners had been confined. The first article will look at the arsenal from its establishment as a military fort to the end of the Civil War. Rock Island, IL, 62nd Regiment, POWs, dead (full
Upper left margin: No. The prison was built in mid 1863,and not yet completed in December 1863 when the first prisoners were incarcerated. from the 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment,
interment forms. IX (Soldiers Buried in Rock Island, Illinois).
(C. 5621). Johnson's Island had one of the lowest mortality rates of any Civil War prison. 1:23,500. PDF NCA Federal Stewardship of the Confederate Dead Additional cemetery policies may be posted on site. Russia-Ukraine war latest: People 'screaming under rubble' after The 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment was surrendered by their
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors | Rock Island Auction The final large prison opened by the Union was at the draft rendezvous at Elmira, New York. United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 commanding officer on 10 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee,
Founded in 1918, the Press publishes more than 40 journals representing 18 societies, along with more than 100 new books annually. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865; U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 includes the Civil War era . Within five weeks Rock Island was housing 6,158 Confederate captives. Seven Confederate Knights-Chapter 2625-
Andersonville Prison was a Confederate POW camp that gained infamy for being the most notorious of any Civil War POW camp, due to the brutality of the guards, overcrowding, and a 27 % fatality rate due to disease, starvation and exposure. Many prisoners also made trinkets to sell to the local community, or made money helping to build the camp reservoir and sewer system. Scale not given. The first, as mandated by Congress, was to serve as a shipping and storage supply center for Union troops; the second was as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers. Ohio Prisoners at Andersonville, Ga., and Salisbury, N.C., Prisons, 1864. "Over 400,000 men were held in prisons in the north and south until the end of the war in April 1865. after which 442 soldiers of that regiment were transferred to Camp Douglas. and thus are the same records the feds have on file. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, . In August 1863, Captain Charles A. Reynolds, under the orders of Brig. the records showed that he was at Rock Island, a prison camp in Illinois. files, General Records, No. Calvin Shedd letters. The island is a part of the city of Rock Island. Richmond, Va. -- reels 131-135. service of the country, is submitted by Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com
Italian POWs worked on RIA during World War II For more information, please contact the cemetery office at 309-782-2094, or see the Department of Veterans Affairs website. LDSGenealogy.com is privately owned and is not an official site of FamilySearch International or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Index for the Memorial Park Cemetery burials, April 1926-April 1982 : 30th Street and Blackhawk Road, Rock Island, IL WorldCat . Dept., July 18/64. After the war, as the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy began to take hold in the South, rumors about horrific conditions at the Rock Island Barracks continued to spread as former Confederate prisoners at Rock Island began to tell stories about the camp. Sons of Confederate Veterans
Images of 429 volumes of Confederate Prisoners of War records, most of which are from the War Department's Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners. These include many military records, such as Enlistment Records, Casualty Reports, Prisoner of War Data, and other records that may be of interest to anyone doing veterans or military research. The National Register of Historic Places lists the entire arsenal, while portions of the arsenal are also designated as a National Historic Landmark. Rock Island Barracks, Ill., Military Prison -- reel 136. Registers of prisoners, compiled by the office of the commissary general of prisoners 1863-1865 Role 3-Vol 3 Records relating to all prisoners. on the Internet. Deaths of Haywood Co. Men
As a result,
Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, photographed pre-1890, shows small U.S. flags on graves. Speidel, C. (1864) Rock Island Barracks, Ill. Rock Island, Ill., C. Speidel. overflowing with Confederate soldiers captured in battle. Dept., July 18/64. From, 30th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry (US), Alabama Confederate Military Unit Histories, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
In their first joy, they could think of nothing except that he was alive. Research of: D. John Trull Jr.
By Sgt. On verso of t.-p.: War Department. actually recorded as deaths and burials occured at the time. While Rock Island was never intended to be a POW camp, it was an ideal location. 1941 Illinois State Historical Society The Rock Island Prison Camp was designed to hold more than 10,000 inmates at any one time, and over the final 18 months of the war, more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners passed through its gates. The additional records
After the camp was closed in July 1865, the barracks were torn down and the construction of an ordnance arsenal resumed. Many of these soldiers were captured in Chattanooga, Tennessee during the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, which were fought November 23 - 25, 1863. Temperatures when prisoners began arriving in December 1863 were below 0 and sanitation was deplorable due to the overcrowding. Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed federal holidays except Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Names in alphabetical order by state. By the end of the month, there were nearly 5,600 prisoners held at Rock Island. Speidel, C. Rock Island Barracks, Ill. Rock Island, Ill., C. Speidel, 1864. Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp
Henderson County Confederate Prisoners of War Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Most of the records are from the War Department's Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners. 19 Figure 11 . Help genealogists worldwide research their family history! Initially, the dead were buried in a plot located 400 yards
The first prisoners arrived in December 1863 and the camp would eventually house 12,192 prisoners during its two years of operations. Military Prison -- reels 140-142. Disease broke out swiftly, including a smallpox epidemic which killed hundreds of prisoners in the first few months of the prison's existence. Gen. George D. Ramsey, chief of Ordnance, explained this in a letter to Edwin Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War, in 1864. Rock Island Military Records. Selected records of the War Department relating to Confederate The freezing temperatures, and lack of supplies, meant that the camp quickly ran out of blankets and warm clothing, as well as fuel to heat the stoves in the barracks. The day the prisoners came to town - The Quad-City Times Rock Island Confederate Cemetery is the only surviving remnant
Depths shown by soundings in feet. Over the next few months, however, the prisoners conditions generally improved as they received medical attention, food and proper clothing. Military petitions for naturalizations, 1918, Index for the Memorial Park Cemetery burials, April 1926-April 1982 : 30th Street and Blackhawk Road, Rock Island, IL, List of Confederate prisoners by state interned at Rock Island, Illinois, 1863-1865. Confederate Prisoners of War ~ 1861 ~ 1865 - AHGP
The site is elevated far above river floods, the climate and situation are healthy; and while the Island is sufficiently located to secure it from sudden attacks, it is near enough to the cities of Rock Island, Davenport and Moline to afford ample accommodations for all the necessary employees.. Rock Island Barracks, Ill. | Library of Congress Kislak accession no. According to the Des Moines Register article, Danforth published undocumented stories about the deliberate murder of the prisoners at the camp, through starvation and disease. However, these stories must be taken with a grain of salt as the historical records do not support most of the claims. ), 37.8 Phillips, 1350 A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Shaw & Shoemaker 38034, 38035 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. The prisoners were paid with scrip that they could use to buy luxury items such as cards, tobacco and other amusements from local sutlers who would visit the camp. An alternate version of this database can be found at FamilySearch here: Gravestone Photographs for 34 National (Military) Cemeteries, Some Pension and Service Records Indexes, and Records and Indexes for Some Individual States. At no place were the conditions worse than at Rock Island, Mitchell wrote in her novel. Rock Island, Illinois
Division of West Mississippi -- reel 143. -- reels 137-139. That's what we offer. Recorded deaths numbered almost 2000. Inside of Rock Island Prison, from December, 1863 to June, 1865; Southern outrages: atrocities as they passed through the hopper: facts for the American people to read: brutal outrages upon Frances Thomas [sic]: 1866 vs. 1876; The maps in the Map Collections materials were either published prior to
1922, produced by the United States government, or both (see catalogue
records that accompany each map for information regarding date of
publication and source). in the Mississippi River then known as Rock Island, now called Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal - Wikipedia Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Compiled Service Records Online from Fold3 (fee-based) Missouri Men Who Served in Illinois Civil War Regiments, Missouri Men Who Served in Kansas Civil War Regiments, Civil War Service Records, 1861-1865 (William S. Stryker's Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865), New Jersey Civil War Payment Vouchers, 1861-1865. New York Civil War Databases at Ancestry (these require payment) Tennessee Confederate Civil War Pension Applications - Soldiers & Widows, Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications, Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires, Tennessee Southern Claims Commission Index 1871-1873 - lists 3,929 Tennesseans who claimed their property had been taken by United States military personnel for use in the Civil War, Burial Records of Federal Soldiers by W.R. Cornelius and Company - indexes 4900 mostly Union Civil War soldiers buried in Nashville, Texas Confederate Indigent Families Index 1863-1865, Texas Adjutant General Service Records Index (includes some Civil War era records). Union officials thought that released Confederates would return to the military. Copyright 1997new Date().getFullYear()>2012&&document.write("-"+new Date().getFullYear());, Clear Digital Media, Inc. - No one can edit, change, or delete your work, Illinois Newspapers, Full Search (1818-2018), 623 titles, Illinois Birth Records Database, (1818-1999). The Press is a founding member of the Association of University Presses. It is in the midst of a country teeming with coal and wood, and especially adapted to agriculture. The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate A chronological history of the civil war in America.
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