Dead Confederate prisoners were buried at Forest Hill Cemetery ... Though the structure traces back to the Civil War-era Camp Randall, its exact origins remain unclear. The structure dates to Camp ...

According to Montana historian and scholar Ken Robison, Confederate prisoners of war languishing in Union prisons were paroled to western territories like Montana. By 1864, two such parolees had ...

The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

Union Maj. Gen. William Sherman characterized them as “infernal devices.” By the end of the war, he and other Union officers were forcing Confederate prisoners-of-war to clear landmines from the ...

Azterodt was executed by hanging in July 1865. Powell was a former Confederate prisoner of war. Tall and strong, he was recruited to provide the muscle for the kidnapping plot. When that plan ...

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 ...

In the early American Civil War, when Union generals were having a hard time winning, Grant forced the surrender of more than 12,000 Confederate prisoners of war. When he besieged Fort Donelson, the ...

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 ...

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 ...