Looking for the Confederate War

   Earlier this year, I started a series on prisoner of war camps in the South. One post was an overview of prisons ( here ), and another po...

     Prisoners of war were an inconvenient reality of the war years. When the first batches arrived in Richmond following the battle of firs...

    Recently, The Scuppernong Press released a small book, edited by Donna Peeler Poteat, on Salisbury Prison. It is actually a post-war rem...

Louis Brown, in his book on the Salisbury Prison, has a long list of civilian prisoners incarcerated at the North Carolina stockade. One o...