prisoners and prisons

Philadelphia. January 16, 1776. [Extracts of correspondence between Ro...

Philadelphia. January 16, 1776. [Extracts of correspondence between Ro...

Philadelphia. January 16, 1776. Extracts of correspondence between Rob...

Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 144, Folder 15.

Andersonville Prison Historic map, Library of Congress

Detailed plan of Andersonville Prison Camp, showing Sweetwater Lick to the north, and the Southwestern & Enfaula Railroad to the east. Shows the main forts, stockade and cemetery. NOTE: Researchers will be serv... More

Andersonville Prison Historic map, Library of Congress

Detailed plan of Andersonville Prison Camp, showing Sweetwater Lick to the north, and the Southwestern & Enfaula Railroad to the east. Shows the main forts, stockade and cemetery.

Map of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Shows the southern border of South Carolina, northern border of Georgia, and eastern borders of Alabama and Tennessee, with railroads, towns, forts, prisons, landforms, and waterways. NOTE: Researchers will be ... More

[Map of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.]

Shows the southern border of South Carolina, northern border of Georgia, and eastern borders of Alabama and Tennessee, with railroads, towns, forts, prisons, landforms, and waterways.

Geographical sketch of the city of Richmond, Virginia, with surroundin...

Shows Confederate encampements and prisons in Richmond and south of the James River in Manchester and Spring Hill. Sneden has added an index listing the governenment buildings and the houses of important person... More

[Ge]ographical sketch of the city of Richmond, Virginia, with surround...

Shows Confederate encampements and prisons in Richmond and south of the James River in Manchester and Spring Hill. Sneden has added an index listing the governenment buildings and the houses of important persons.

1862 map of the James River. - Public domain old map

Payne, a member of the 4th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A., was wounded and captured during the Battle of Williamsburg, Va., in May 1862. This map depicts the area of the Virginia Peninsula between Williamsburg and Ri... More

Some colors and prisoners taken by French : [map of action around Wash...

Shows the location of troops just outside of Sharpsburg, Md., during the battle of Antietam. Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photoco... More

Map of Richmond, Virginia...1863 - Public domain old map

Identifies Confederate prisons, forts, and hospitals in Richmond, Va. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page. This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society... More

Plan of part of Richmond, Virginia : showing locations of Rebel prison...

Shows the streets of Richmond below Church Hill from the Canal to Broad Street and from 17th to 21st streets, including Castle Thunder and Libby prisons and the Union officers' and soldiers' hospitals.

Map showing route taken by Mosby with his prisoners, Nov. 27th-29th, 1...

In this detail from an unidentified printed map, Sneden has traced the circuitous route he and other prisoners captured by Mosby's Guerillas during the Mine Run Campaign followed from near Rappahannock Station,... More

Map of Mosby's route through Virginia and North Carolina

This printed map of Virginia and North Carolina includes annotations by Sneden showing the route taken by Mosby's troops and their prisoners (Sneden among them) from Culpeper, Va., to Charlotte, N.C. Color codi... More

[Map of Mosby's route through Virginia and North Carolina].

This printed map of Virginia and North Carolina includes annotations by Sneden showing the route taken by Mosby's troops and their prisoners (Sneden among them) from Culpeper, Va., to Charlotte, N.C.

Map of Richmond, Virginia...1863. - Public domain map

Identifies Confederate prisons, forts, and hospitals in Richmond, Va. Public domain image of 16th-17th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions i... More

Rebel defences sic of Charleston Harbor, S.C., December 11th, 1864

Outlines the harbor of Charleston, S.C., beginning with the convergence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers and continuing to the Atlantic Ocean. Sneden traveled through the harbor on a Confederate steamer on Dece... More

Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864.

Illustrates a detailed outline of the actual prison yard with acreage and stockade dimensions given. Also, shows the surrounding area where the following sites were located: "death house," graveyard, rifle tre... More

Plan of Camp Lawton, or the rebel prison near Millen, Georgia ... Nove...

Illustrates the fort and its defenses of abatis and rifle pits, the guard camp made of log houses, hospital and surgeon's quarters, commissary, quartermaster, officers' quarters, and prison stockade containing ... More

Andersonville Prison, Georgia in July 1864

Illustrates a detailed outline of the actual prison yard with acreage and stockade dimensions given. Also, shows the surrounding area where the following sites were located: "death house," graveyard, rifle tre... More

Plan of Camp Lawton, or the rebel prison near Millen, Georgia ... Nove...

Illustrates the fort and its defenses of abatis and rifle pits, the guard camp made of log houses, hospital and surgeon's quarters, commissary, quartermaster, officers' quarters, and prison stockade containing ... More

Plan of the Rebel prison pen at Savannah Georgia, Lt. S. R. Davis, C.S...

Detailed drawing of a Confederate prison camp in Savannah, Ga.

Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia 1864.

Shows dimensions, layout, outbuildings and immediate surroundings of Andersonville Prison Camp, Georgia. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image. Relief shown by hachures. This it... More

Plan of the prison. March 1, 1864. - Public domain map

Map shows the plan of Andersonville Prison Camp including the stockade, the town of Anderson Station on the Macon and Americus Rail Road, the locations of Confederate units serving as guards, and the headquarte... More

"Camp Lawton" at Millen, Georgia : about 8,600 prisoners confined here...

Concerns a Confederate prison camp for Northern soldiers that was brand new in October 1864 when Sneden was transferred from Savannah, Ga., back inland to Camp Lawton at Millen, Ga. Sneden shows the 44-acre st... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Aug. 1864

Map shows a detailed plan of the Andersonville prison complex including locations of external defenses, guards' and officers' quarters, hospital, storehouses, cook house, and graveyard, and the use of the terra... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison, Sumter Co., Georgia.

This is a revised plan showing the physical layout of Andersonville Prison in August 1864. This is a corrected drawing of his map cataloged as Mss5:1 Sn237:1 (v. 5, p. 451). Bottom margin of the map: "During Au... More

The Rebel defences [sic] of Charleston, S.C., December 1864

Shows in detail the Confederate forts along the Ashley and Cooper rivers, as well as obstructions in Charleston Harbor. Also shows the burned district of Charleston, where Union prisoners of war were kept withi... More

Prison at Andersonville, Ga. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 134 From Sanitary Commission bulletin, v. 1, no. 21, Sept. 1, 1864. opp. p. 647. Plan of camp showing the prison, the "dead line," "Rebel camp," batteries, "Gen. Wi... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison or "Camp Sumter," April, 1864

Illustrates the layout of Andersonville Camp, as Sneden refers to the prison, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Capt... More

Rebel defences [sic] of Charleston Harbor, S.C., December 11th, 18[64]

Outlines the harbor of Charleston, S.C., beginning with the convergence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers and continuing to the Atlantic Ocean. Sneden traveled through the harbor on a Confederate steamer on Dece... More

Map made at Andersonville Prison [Sept. 1864].

This regional view locates the prison camp in relation to Columbia, Macon, and Milledgeville, Ga., as well as the town of Andersonville. Parts of bordering Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina are also indica... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Letter to wife, 1864...

Map showing route taken by U.S. prisoners of war, Feby. 1864, when sen...

Depicts railroad lines from Raleigh, N.C., through South Carolina and Georgia, highlighting in purple ink the particular train route Sneden took as a prisoner. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocop... More

Plan of the Rebel prison pen at Savannah Georgia, Lt. S. R. Davis, C.S...

Detailed drawing of a Confederate prison camp in Savannah, Ga. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image. This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; ... More

Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864

Shows the prison with wooden fence, 18 guard towers, the famous "deadline," the north and south gates, Sweetwater Creek, "Valley of Death," fortification, batteries, and cook house. He depicts overcrowding by a... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison or "Camp Sumter," April, 1864.

Illustrates the layout of Andersonville Camp, as Sneden refers to the prison, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Capt... More

Martyrs of the Race-Course - Union prisoners' cemetery at Charleston, ...

Boers bringing in British prisoners /

From Edison films catalog: Here we have a mixed Company of Gordon Highlanders, Irish Fusilliers and English Lancers, as a group of prisoners taken to the rear by a troop of Boer Cavalry. The expression of their... More

Last known home of Czar Nicholas /

Camera pans the home of a merchant named Ipatiev, where Nicholas II, last Russian emperor, and his royal family were executed in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), July 1918. Second sequence is views of men, identified... More

AWOL, all wrong old Laddiebuck /

From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Concerns American soldiers in Europe after the armstice [sic]. One goes AWOL with "Joy" (Miss AWOL) and after a series of mishaps with her, he... More

Lancaster, the 14th July, 1776. In Committee. Gentlemen. The Committee...

Text in German at the bottom of the page.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... More

Mount boys mount - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

We never can forget it, or The Memories of Andersonville prison pen

Music associated with the Union side

Nameless heroine - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We are coming, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Union side

Prisoner's return, or I am coming, dearest mother

Music associated with the Union side no cover

The Southern captive, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Confederate side

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Lancaster, the 14th July, 1776. In Committee. Gentlemen. The Committee...

Text in German at the bottom of the page.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... More

Mount boys mount - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

Nameless heroine - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We are coming, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Union side

We never can forget it, or The Memories of Andersonville prison pen

Music associated with the Union side

The Southern captive, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Confederate side

Prisoner's return, or I am coming, dearest mother

Music associated with the Union side no cover

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

Mount boys mount - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We never can forget it, or The Memories of Andersonville prison pen

Music associated with the Union side

Nameless heroine - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We are coming, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Union side

The Southern captive, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Confederate side

Prisoner's return, or I am coming, dearest mother

Music associated with the Union side no cover

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

Mount boys mount - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

We are coming, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Union side

We never can forget it, or The Memories of Andersonville prison pen

Music associated with the Union side

Nameless heroine - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

The Southern captive, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Confederate side

Prisoner's return, or I am coming, dearest mother

Music associated with the Union side no cover

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

We are coming, Confederate States of America.

Music associated with the Union side

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864

The Old flag, 1864 : fiftieth anniversary, 1914

Includes a facsimile reproduction of three issues of a newspaper originally written by hand by Capt. William H. May while in prison at Camp Ford. Also available in digital form.

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence,

Diary (1864 January 1-December 24) kept by Gibson while serving with Company B, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. Documents the capture of the Federal garrison at Plymouth, N.C., April 17-20, 18... More

Samuel J. Gibson diary and correspondence, 1864., Diary, 1864