Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities : being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission, with an appendix, containing the testimony Philadelphia : U.S. Death rates ranged from 20 to 30 percent, North and South, with the highest death rate occurring at Camp Douglas in Chicago.' There were as many as 150 prisons, small and large, through the north and the south. An estimated 56,000 died in prison - 30,000 in Confederate prisons and 26,000 in Union prisons. 'Over 400,000 men were held in prisons in the north and south until the end of the war in April 1865. Union officials thought that released Confederates would return to the military.

At first prisoners were paroled or exchanged, but this mostly ended in early 1864. 2.3.1 Salisbury Prison at Salisbury, North CarolinaĪs many as 674,000 men might have been taken prisoner during the Civil War.

2.2.1 Andersonville Confederate Prison Records, 1864-1865.

2 Confederate Prisons for Union Soldiers.

Union navy during the civil war