Family Tree Friday: Confederate POW Deaths & Burials Online As a
way to tie together all the Confederate prisoner of war records
that we’ve discussed over the last several weeks, I thought you
might want to know about a specific record the War Department
compiled in the early 20th century to document all of the
Confederate POWs who died in Federal custody during the war. I’m
referring to the “Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors
Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the
North.” Published by the War Department in 1913 (with a later
revision the following year), the textual copy of this record is
now located in Record Group 92, Records of the Office of the
Quartermaster General (ARC ID 617202). The 1913 report has also
been reproduced in National Archives Microfilm publication M918
(under the same title as the published version) and is also
digitized on Ancestry.com as part of their “Civil War Prisoner
of War Records” database. During the Civil War, Federal
authorities took immediate ste