Alice--Thanks for your information. Where would you suggest that I start looking among the many files? I have looked at microfilm of POWs at Rock Island, and some of the entries are all but illegible. Best regards, Ed Burke -----Original Message----- From: Alice J. Gayley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:47:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Re: Info on exchanged POWs? Ed, Unless the governments of the Confederate states have any records, the only source is the National Archives. Specifically Record Group 249, Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners, Records Relating to Individual Federal Prisoners of War. I am currently working with Entry 107, Miscellaneous Rolls and Related Records of Federal Prisoners of War, 1861-1865. There are 1,001 files in this set. The type of records range from copies of orders directing detached service from officers to escort paroled prisoners from, on my case, Harrisburg, to specific parole camps in order to be exchanged to individual hand-written paroles signed by the prisoner and the officer issuing the parole. In some cases wounded prisoners were being transported; these records usually take the form of a manifest listing all prisoners, rank, regiment, and type of wound or illness signed by an attending surgeon. Hope this helps, [email protected] wrote: Can anyone suggest a source for names of exchanged POWs? I am specifically looking for lists of CSA soldiers as POWs who were exchanged for Federal POWs. I think my ancestor Jim Hendricks was captured in 1863 as a member of the 1st Tenn Cav, CSA. I think he went to Rock Island (maybe Camp Douglas) and was lucky to be exchanged in 1864. This info is not on his record from the national archives.Thanks for any info. Ed Burke, Massachusetts -- Alice J. Gayley Pennsylvania in the Civil War http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/ ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from list mode, email [email protected] and in the text area of the message, type only the word unsubscribe