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          Prisoner of War Camps 1861-1865

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          Search, View, Print Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865

          There were numerous "Prison Camps", both big and small, used during the Civil War.

          New information will be added to the prisons as we find it. Later in the war, after the Union army overran the Confederate prisons, they were used as Union prisons. This is why listings of some Confederate prisons are listed as Union prison camps in the latter days.

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          Prisons Types

          The 150 prisons can be grouped into 7 classes.

          They are as follows:

          1. Existing jails and prisons- first to come into use, ranged in size from small city jails to medium sized county jails to large state prisons
          2. Coastal fortifications- second to be pressed into use, mostly in the North, were forts along the Atlantic Ocean
          3. Old buildings converted into prisons- used mainly in the South
          4. Barracks enclosed by high fences-