The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

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.

Prisoners of War and Other Prisoners. Share full article. Aug. 8, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 8, 1864, Page 3 Buy Reprints.

Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the ...

THE PRISONERS IN THE SOUTH.; A Glimpse at Their Treatment by the Rebels. EFFORTS TO MITIGATE THEIR SUFFERINGS. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. Share full article. Aug. 25, 1864.

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.

Although the prison is long gone, visitors still can see the spot where Confederate prisoners of war were held on Arsenal Island Kris Leinicke, of Rock Island, director for the Rock Island Arsenal ...

Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory. ... Nearly 13,000 men died there, mostly prisoners of war.

The inscription reads: “Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors who died here while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be ...