> From: Carmel Thomaston <carmel@paintedrock.com> > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:45:51 EST > Subject: [CW-POW-L] Is there a list somewhere? > To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com > Is there a list somewhere of the names and locations of the prison camps > that housed Confederates? I'm hampered in my search for information on my > gg grandfather because I don't know where he was a POW or when he was > captured. All I know is that is was paroled at Talladega, Alabama as a POW > and served in the 12th Alabama. > > Carmel Thomaston > carmel@paintedrock.com > Talladega was a major site for the discharge of Confederate Soldiers at the end of the War. As Confederate units were captured, the men were sent to these sites for processing and then paroled. Most did not serve time in Prisoner of War camps. I hope this helps. Regards, Jim Taylor -- jtaylor@datasync.com Pascagoula, Mississippi 25th Alabama Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/25ali.htm 27th Alabama Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/27th.htm Company F, 4th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/4msif.htm Company K, 17th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/17msik.htm Company F, 2nd Mississippi Cavalry, Ballentine's Partisan Rangers http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/2mscf.htm Company F, 42nd Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/42msif.htm Company G, 42nd Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/42msig.htm Company D, 31st Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/31msid.htm Company A, 13th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/13msia.htm Company E, 5th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/5msie.htm