Prison Camps Info and sites

[Gypsy Heart]

Please feel free to add any missed ones.

The U.S. has employed prison camps of one sort or another since the Revolutionary War, when British soldiers were interned in locations like a York, Pa., camp which held about 1,500 prisoners and their families. Revolutionary era camps were relatively benign compared to what the term invokes today, at least for the British, and Native Americans were more often driven West than imprisoned in this period.
Through the first century of U.S. history, the major internment issue affecting Americans was slavery, which for all intents and purposes created a series of forced labor camps across the country, but without the centralized location, i.e., the "concentration" of prisoners.

The first major prison camp operations in the U.S. came during the Civil War. Starting in 1863, both the North and the South began holding large numbers of prisoners. Before 1864, there had been some provisions for the exchange and release of captured soldiers, but these talks broke down when the Confederates refused to treat black soldiers they had captured on an equal footing with white prisoners. The Confederacy wanted to treat former slaves, who has been enlisted by Union forces, as escapees rather than prisoners of war, which the Union found unacceptable, or at least that was the story. .


Andersonville
http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/

Belle Island, James River, Richmond
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi.../PrisonsParolesAndPOWs/belleislandprison.html

Camp Chase, Ohio
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/5109/history.html

Camp Douglas, Chicago
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...cities.com/BourbonStreet/2757/issues/camp.htm

Camp Ford, Texas
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...n=militaryhistory&zu=http://www.campford.org/

Charleston
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...n=militaryhistory&zu=http://www.campford.org/

Danville,VA
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...la.com/sims-mitchell/local/articles/phsp/008/

Elmira NY
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...zu=http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/elmiraprison/

Florence SC
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...://home.att.net/~florencestockade/friends.htm

Deleware
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...litaryhistory&zu=http://www.del.net/org/fort/

Florida
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...tp://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/jefferson.html

Baltimore
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ory&zu=http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/cw2b.html

Ohio
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...u=http://www.heidelberg.edu/~dbush/index.html

VA
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi.../members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/libby.htm

Ohio State Pen
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...zu=http://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/ohio.html

Washington DC
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...epages.military.rootsweb.com/~pa91/cmocp.html

Point Lookout MD
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...ents.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/NP/Point.html

Richmonds Castle Thunder
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi...://www.wtv-zone.com/civilwar/castlethund.html

Rock Island Iowa / Illinois
http://militaryhistory.about.com/gi....rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/plac_hist/hist-cp.htm

 

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[pgill]

Wow, being British myself, that amount of camps is scary..... Keep up the interesting posts GypseyHeart.

God bless,
Peter

 

[drcecil]

There was a pow camp at Hart Island, NY. It was north of current Rikers Island. My GGGGFather was stationed there after the 143rd PAVOL was pulled out of the siege
lines at Petersburg, VA in 1865.

Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island is a small island in New York City at the western end of Long Island Sound. It is approximately a mile long and one quarter of a mile wide and located to the northeast of City Island in the Pelham Islands group. The island is the easternmost part of the borough of the Bronx.

At various times, the New York City Department of Correction has used the island for a prison, but it is currently uninhabited.

Hart Island was a prisoner of war camp for four months in 1865. 3,413 captured Confederate soldiers were housed. 235 died. Their remains were relocated to Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn in 1941.

 

[hollowpointred]

i have been to fort Delaware. when i was a kid my grandfather used to volunteer there (its a state park now). it was a horrible place during the war. some even called it the andersonville of the north. nice post gypsy!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I think there was one located at Alton IL.

You are correct SuperDuty

Alton IL.
http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/index.html