Locations
The Principal Confederate Prisons,
and Where They Were Located
Andersonville, Sumter County, Georgia, known in the South as Camp Sumter. See Also the National Park Service Site. And here is yet another Andersonville website.
Belle Isle, in James River, near Richmond, Virginia.
Blackstone, South Carolina.
Castle Morgan, Cahaba, Alabama
Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia.
Cahaba, Alabama.
Charleston, South Carolina.
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Camp Sorghum, Columbia, South Carolina.
Danville, Pottsylvania County, Virginia.
Florence, Darlington Country, South Carolina.
Goldsborough, North Carolina.
Libby, Richmond, Virginia.
Macon, Georgia, known south as Camp Oglethorpe.
Millin, Burke County, Georgia, known south as Camp Lawton.
Savannah, Georgia, known south as Camp Davidson.
Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Tyler, Smith County, Texas.
Additional links on prisons:
- Abbott, A. O. "Prison Life In The South At Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough And Andersonsonville." New York: Harper And Brothers, 1865. Note: Abbott includes the date and place of capture in his listings.
CT - Connecticut Prisoners of War Books, listed by year.
GL - Glazier, Willard W. "The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape, giving a complete History of Prison Life in the South Principally at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Belle Isle, Millin, Salisbury, and Andersonville." Hartford CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Conn. 1868
Photograph of Libby Prison, 1865 - Putnam, George Haven. "Prisoners of War: A Soldier's Narrative of Life at Libby and Danville Prisons." The Outlook March 25, 1911, p 697.
