Exchanging prisoners was common by the time France ... also became synonymous with misery. In the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent ...

Davis and the Confederate Congress threatened to kill white officers of the U.S.C.T., and permitted their commanders to use black prisoners-of-war as human shields and killed white Union foragers upon ...

Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition ... hold him in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After Lincoln's reelection in 1864 on a ...

His student trainees composed Company B in the 85th regiment of Ohio. The company contained nearly a quarter of the undergraduate population and set off to war in 1862, primarily acting as guards for ...

The arsenal also served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers. By the end of 1863, nearly 5,600 prisoners were held at the Rock Island prison. In 1864, the members of the 108th United ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of war—objects that have ...