Statements and Documentation on Civil War POWs

Evidence Relating to Rebel Prisoners held in United States

(in the order presented)

Letter from M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General, United States Army

Fort Delaware, Delaware

Gilbert S. Clark, Captain, in Charge of Subsistence Department, Fort Delaware, Delaware

1864 Regulations for Stations Holding Prisoners of War and Political or State Prisoners

S. R. Craige, Captain, A. Q. M., Volunteers, Quartermaster's Office, Fort Delaware, Delaware

Gilbert S. Clark, Captain, recalled,  Fort Delaware, Delaware

George W. Ahl, Captain, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General and Commissary or Prisoners, Fort Delaware, Delaware

A. G. Wolf, Lieutenant and Commissary of Prisoners, Fort Delaware, Delaware

Special Order No. 157.

H. R. Silliman, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Fort Delaware, Delaware

A. G. Wolf, Lieutenant, recalled,  Fort Delaware, Delaware

Colin Arrott, Acting Assistant Surgeon, Fort Delaware, Delaware

 

More depositions on POW treatment and conditions "at the North"

David's Island, New York

Augustus Van Cortlandt, Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, De Camp General Hospital, David's Island, New York

George W. Edwards, Acting Assistant Surgeon, De Camp General Hospital, Dean’s Island, New York

Deposition of John Howe, William Badger, George Badger, A. N. Brockway, and Wm. C. Pryor, Acting Assistant Surgeons, De Camp General Hospital, David's Island, New York

Rev. Robert Lowry, Chaplin, United States Army, Protestant Episcopal Minister

Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, Ohio

Testimony taken at Washington D.C., June 3, 1864

Commissioners Present.—Mr. Wilkins, Dr. Wallace, Dr. Walden

Charles P. Wilson, Acting Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, Johnson's Island, Ohio

Depositions taken at Sandusky, Ohio.

T. Woodridge, M.D., Major, Surgeon in Charge of Depot for Prisoners of War on Johnson's Island and Surgeon for 128th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Regiment

Henry Evertman,  Surgeon U. S. Vols., Chief Medical Officer

Deposition taken at Kelley’s Island.

George C. Huntington, resident of Kelley's Island

 

Treatment of Civil War POWs

Civil War POW Statements

 

Connecticut

   1st Connecticut Cavalry

      Charles Farnsworth, Lieutenant-Colonel

      Charles Farnsworth, Lieutenant-Colonel, additional testimony

New York

   8th New York Cavalry

      Nelson D. Ferguson, Surgeon

Pennsylvania

   145th Pennsylvania Infantry

      D. W. Richards, M. D., Assistant Surgeon

 

Statements of U. S. surgeons and other witnesses

 

Maryland

   United States Army General Hospital Division No. 1, Annapolis

      B. A. VanderKieft, Surgeon in Charge
      William S. Ely, Surgeon, Executive Officer

   United States Army General Hospital Division No. 2, Annapolis

      G. B. Parker, Surgeon in Charge

      G. B. Parker, Surgeon in Charge, recalled

   Jarvis General Hospital, Baltimore

      De Witt C. Peters, Surgeon in Charge

   West's Buildings Hospital, Baltimore

      A. Chapel, Surgeon in Charge

   Baltimore

      Miss D. L. Dix

Washington, D. C.

   United States Sanitary Commission

      Joseph B. Abbott, Special Relief Agent

 

Evidence Relating to United States Stations for Rebel Prisoners 

 

Letter from M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General, United States Army

Gilbert S. Clark, Captain, in Charge of Subsistence Department, Fort Delaware