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	The Prisons of the War - "The Photographic History of the Civil War" on-line
		The prisons of the Civil War, North and South, were for the most part temporary makeshifts, hastily constructed, and seldom suitable for human beings in confinement; or else they were structures intended for other purposes and transformed into prisons.
		Prisoners were confined during the course of the war in more than one hundred and fifty places, but of these hardly more than twenty are important.
		Though the prison was not quite completed, over five thousand prisoners were sent during the month of December, 1863, and from that time on the prison usually contained from five thousand to eight thousand prisoners until the end of the war.
	www.pddoc.com /skedaddle/050a/prison029.htm (6352 words)

	Prisoner-of-war camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A prisoner of war is generally a soldier, sailor, or airman who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
		The earliest known purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was built at Norman Cross, England in 1797 to house the increasing number of prisoners from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
		Lieutenant colonel I. Matuszewski, the head of the II department of the Polish Joint Staff, informed the military minister of Poland in the letter on February 1, 1922, that 22 thousand of PoWs were lost in the camp of Tuchol in all time of its existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp (1460 words)

	Cahaba Prison, near Selma Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cahaba prison was named for the small Alabama town that lay nearby on the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers, not far from Selma.
		Guards finally allowed the prisoners to leave the compound to gather driftwood, which was stacked to form platforms for the men.
		The cooking was done by the prisoners themselves in the open area in the center of the prison yard.
	lesliefamily.org /history/cahaba.htm (749 words)

	Civil War Alabama
		The Confederate government acquired an abandoned cotton warehouse in Cahaba, near Selma in Dallas County, Alabama, for use as a prison for captured Union prisoners in the summer of 1862.
		Cahaba was selected after an extensive search throughout Alabama for suitable locations for a prison to handle excess prisoners from the main Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
		Cahaba was selected due to its relatively secure location in the deep South, which would permit freedom from potential Union raids.
	groups.msn.com /CivilWarAlabama/castlemorgan.msnw (559 words)

	Cahaba Prisoner of War Camp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The prison was located on the on the central east end of the city on the banks of the Alabama and Cahaba Rivers.
		The prison yard, enclosed by a fence, was about 35x46 feet and could be used by the prisoners during the daytime.
		Due to his overseeing of this prison, prisoners were treated fairly and the death rate was extremely low in comparison to most other prison camps.
	www.mycivilwar.com /pow/cahaba.htm (745 words)

	Cahaba Civil War Prison
		Reverend Emanuel Hush Yeisley - survivor of Cahaba and the Sultana Disaster
		Prisoners were contained in old decrepit buildings which held no provisions for bedding.
		Due to his overseeing of this prison, prisoners were treated fairly and the death rate was extremely low in comparison to most other Civil War Prison Camps.
	www.censusdiggins.com /prison_cahaba.html (597 words)

	Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster - William O. Bryant - University of Alabama Press
		William O. Bryant pulls together the various facets of the Cahaba story in masterful style, offering a work that is not only academically sound but enjoyable to read.
		Cahaba Federal Prison was reputed to be a more humane facility than other, more notorious camps, such as Andersonville, Libby Prison, Elmira, Rock Island, Johnson's Island, and Camp Douglas.
		First published in 1988, this reissue in paperback makes the poignant story of the Cahaba Prison and the Sultana disaster available again to a growing audience of Civil War historians, students, and reenactors.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0817311335/Cahaba_Prison_and_the_Sultana_Disaster.htm (217 words)

	Sultana (steamboat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This disaster did not receive the press attention one would expect, due to the recent assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Civil War.
		Most of the passengers on the Sultana were Union soldiers just released from Confederate prison camps such as Cahawba and Andersonville.
		Sultana had been contracted by the United States government to transport these former prisoners of war back to their homes in the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sultana_Disaster (773 words)

	morrison
		Cahaba Prison was designed to temporarily house 500 prisoners until Confederates could transfer their captives to a more permanent facilty.
		As the war took its toll and funds dwindled, Cahaba Prison was housing 2000 to 3000 Union prisoners by the fall of 1864.
		Prisoners had heard of a Federal force close enough for them to plan a prison break, but after some hostages were seized, they backed down.
	www.couchgenweb.com /civilwar/morrison.htm (710 words)

	ALCWMB - Old Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Henry C. Davis, so it is possible that he was not actually "in charge" of the prison itself.
		However, records of the time do indicate that he was involved with it, such as he was responsible for censoring the outgoing mail from the prisoners.
		It was after this service that he served as Chaplain of the prison.
	history-sites.com /alcwmb/old-archive/archivefiles/6436.html (373 words)

	Prisoner of war camp :: Web Articles :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The British Army interred tens of thousands of American prisoners-of-war on cramped and hot prison ships in New York Harbor and smaller numbers in the harbors of Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia.
		The prisoners suffered from malnutrion, disease, lack of exercise, floggings, and poor sanitary conditions.
		The Americans typically incarcerated British and Hessian prisoners in forts or temporary wooden stockades, as well as in existing town jails and prisons.
	www.webarticles.com /Recreation/Camps/Prisoner-of-war-camp (1123 words)

	Prisoner-of-war camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some non-combatant enemy personnel, such as merchant mariners and civil aircrews, were also considered prisoners of war.
		Famine, cold and infectious diseases killed tens prisoners daily.
		Abu Ghraib prison - 32 km west of Baghdad, Iraq
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prison-camp (1460 words)

	Colonel Friedrich K. Hecker Camp #443
		He was sent to Cahaba Prison in Alabama, where he was confined until spring 1865.
		Cahaba Prison was located near Selma, Alabama, near the confluence of the Cahaba and Alabama Rivers.
		Prisoners were kept in buildings in which no bedding had been provided, so they slept on the stone floors.
	hecker.ilcivilwar.org /hecker_anc_bfellis.htm (931 words)

	Harmon Hubbard Civil War Reminiscences Cahaba Male Chorus
		The Cahaba Andersonville Male Chorus was the finest musical aggregation I have ever had the pleasure of singing with.
		He was a member of the Handel-Hayden singing society, of Boston, Mass., a piano tuner by profession and sang tenor in one of the Boston churches at a salary of $1,500 a year.
		Sometimes five or six thousand of the prisoners would gather around us, sitting down upon the ground and keeping as good order as though they were in church.
	www.janneyfamily.com /harmon_hubbard/hr_civil_war_01_04 (775 words)

	Cahaba Heights News
		Local news for Cahaba Heights, AL continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
		It's a heavy-duty cleaning job like no other: ridding Alabama's rivers of the sewage that has seeped out of eight wastewater management facilities run by the prison system for years -- then making sure it...
		Jefferson County needs to beef up its courtroom security to prevent the kind of tension that commonly occurs during criminal trials from exploding into violence, judges say.
	www.topix.net /city/cahaba-heights-al (528 words)

	Imprisonment at Cahaba Prison near Selma, Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Arriving at Cahaba river in Ala., we left the cars and embarked on a steamboat, there awaiting to carry us to the Confederate prison at Cahaba, Ala.
		This prison had been an old cotton warehose in former days, and within its dark and gloomy walls we took up our abode, not having the least idea of when we could get out of there.
		In addition to want of food, the proximity of the prison to the river allowed the water, when the river became swollen from the frequent rains, to rise up into the building and cover the floor to a depth of from one to three and four feet deep.
	home.flash.net /~gshields/Cahaba.html (439 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Where there was a colored regiment in charge of a fort under Col. Lathron, who made a stubborn resistance against the Confederate forces, this officer having sworn he would never surrender or be taken alive – when this demand was made upon him, was soon shot - and some think by his own men.
		The outposts, or guards in charge of our prison permitted some of the prisoners to come to the fires and warm.
		We were to take advantage of this kind consideration and at a given signal – some one groaning like in intense pain – one hundred of the prisoners were to fall upon the guards and we to make an escape.
	lesliefamily.org /history/sultana.htm (1360 words)

	Portals To Hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Interest in the American Civil War's prisons and its POWs has continued unabated since the first newspaper accounts were published in 1861 and the first book about a prisoner's personal experiences was published in the fall of 1862.
		It is for those reasons I have compiled the following sources detailing as much as possible the subjects and prisons each title concerns, along with information about the author and the reliability of the information he presents, based upon my own extensive in-depth research about the subject over the past two decades.
		(Twenty major prisons, ten on each side, were responsible for nearly all of the 56,000 deaths) To date, a number of excellent studies have been published that I consider the best for a thorough examination of each compound.
	lonniespeer.com /_wsn/page2.html (491 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster: Books: Jerry O. Potter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Sultana was carrying released Union prisoners of war from Vicksburg to Camp Chase in Ohio.
		Potter also describes life in the Confederate prisoner of war camps and what it was like for those who had to live a life in one.
		These U.S. prisoners of war had just endured the worst of all times at the infamous Andersonville and Cahaba prison camps.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0882898612?v=glance (2211 words)

	Lancer: Vengeance
		Cahaba, or Cahawba as the natives used to spell it, was located on the banks of the Alabama and Cahaba rivers.
		Though the death rate at Cahaba was low compared to many other camps, there was still the threat of cholera or typhoid fever due to the contaminated water supply.
		The Lieutenant was a prisoner in the camp I was assigned to.”
	www.peterbrown.tv /lancervengeance.html (10924 words)

	West Texan's father fought in Civil War, survived ship catastrophe
		Warner said that as one might expect, the prison populations fairly well exploded at Cahaba and Andersonville.
		Warner also said the prisoners were all near starvation and had "only the clothing on their backs."
		The arrangement was that the prisoners would be transported up the Mississippi on paddle wheelers (steamboats) and that the boat captains would be paid $5 for each private and $10 for each officer they carried.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texas/sult0324.html (1324 words)

	Guidon Books - Andersonville and Other Civil War Prisons
		It is a story of people whose lives were forever altered by war and, in an ironic twist of fate, were forced to live on an island with the enemy and remain at peace.
		Bryant, William O. Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster.
		Twenty-seven histories of men held in prisons - captured on the battlefield as well as political prisoners - rich in detail of the escapes and conditions inside the prisons.
	www.guidon.com /anderson.html (1858 words)

	175th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Some were sent to Cahaba Prison in Alabama for internment; others went to Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
		After Lee's surrender on April 9th of 1865 and the cessation of hostilities, the men in the Southern Prison Camps were released.
		21 former prisoners of war from the 175th who were going home died on the Steamer Sultana when it blew up on April 27th on the Mississippi River south of Memphis.
	www.udata.com /users/hsbaker/175th.html (484 words)

	University of Iowa Press - Browse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Members of this regiment were captured on four different occasions and, consequently, held at a wide range of locations throughout the South.
		While the stories of the prisoners in A Perfect Picture of Hell speak eloquently for themselves, they are enhanced by the editors' prologue and other introductory materials, which set both the experiences of the regiment as a whole and the individual authors in context.
		These men's prison experiences speak for those of thousands of other soldiers who served and suffered.
	www.uiowa.edu /uiowapress/genperpic.htm (535 words)

	OHS - Fight for the Colors - Behind the Lines: True Stories of the Ohio Battle Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the Battle of Chickamauga, the 121st O.V.I. captured a Confederate flag and the 89th lost its flag to Southern soldiers.
		We Can Forgive, But Never Forget: Prisoners of Wars Flags highlights two of the most unusual flags in the collection, Prisoner of War flags from the Civil War.
		Ohio soldiers were held in Confederate prisons such as Andersonville, Libby, and Belle Isle.
	ohiohistory.org /ohswww/etcetera/exhibits/fftc/btlines/index.cfm?... (369 words)

	Dallas County, Alabama Genealogy - History and Places
		It is traversed by the Alabama River and bordered by Perry, Chilton, Autauga, Lowndes, Wilcox, and Marengo counties.
		Originally, the county seat was at Cahaba, which also served as the state capital for a brief period.
		History of Cahaba Federal Prison from the Electric Cemetery.
	www.prairiebluff.com /algenweb/dallas/about.html (226 words)

	The Gene Pool: JTR's Colorful Family History
		He was a Prisoner of War at Cahaba, Alabama.
		"Cahaba prison was named for the small Alabama town that lay nearby on the Alabama River, not far from Selma.
		In late February 1865, heavy rains caused the Alabama River to flood the prison grounds at Cahaba.
	www.rootsweb.com /~genepool/yeiseman.htm (1901 words)

	sultana
		This prison had been an old cotton warehouse in former days, and within its dark and gloomy walls we took up our abode, not having the least idea when we could get out of there.
		The horrors of the battle field and of war in general were tame in comparison to what soldiers had to endure in these fearful prison houses.
		Our ranks were not so full now as on the day when we entered those gloomy prison walls, for some of the poor fellows had succumbed to the fearful hardships and exposure they were compelled to bear.
	www.couchgenweb.com /civilwar/sultana.htm (2730 words)

	Sherman Huston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After captured was taken to Cahaba Prison, Ala.
		He remained at Cahaba Prison about 6 weeks where he was tranfered to Savanah, Ga. On reaching Macon, Ga. they found the R. Road had been destroy preventing further progress in that direction at the time by rail.
		They remained in Macon about 3 weeks that prisoners then became so unruly that They could not hold them there no longer when they were sent to the famous Andersonville Prisoner in Ga. They were confined in the Anderson Prison about some 5 months or until the 29
	www.champaign.lib.oh.us /warsketch/huston25.htm (412 words)

	Civil War Resources On The Web
		Chronology of the Prisoner of War Exchange and Parole Cartel
		Confederate Prison May Have Been a Preferred One in the Civil War
		Images of the Civil War: Prisoners and Prisons
	www.civilwarhome.com /cwinfo4.htm (213 words)

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