Some statistics you may find interesting: Approximately 16 per cent of all enlisted soldiers during the war became POWs. About 30,000 soldiers died in Confederate camps, and about 26,000 died in Union camps. The death rate was approximately 13 per cent. The number of men held in camps and not paroled on the field numbered nearly 410,000 - information extracted from "Portals to Hell", by Lonnie Speer Sue morgana@ghg.net