Does anyone know if there are records from Libby Prison? My ancestor, Capt. Martin Scherff, was a prisoner there. Thanks. ________________________________________ Conserve resources. Print only when necessary. NOTE NEW eMAIL ADDRESS : Effective March 31, 2012, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) will no longer accept mail addressed to the "omh.state.ny.us" domain. Please update your address book to reflect our new email domain of "omh.ny.gov”. IMPORTANT NOTICE : This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain confidential information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments.

Linda I googled Libby prison records And found this reference: http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/249.html Go down to 249.3.2 records relating to individual federal prisoners of war There are some records at Fold3, but not an entire roster of inmates that I can see. Good luck, Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of LINDA WHITNEY Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:09 AM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Libby Prison Does anyone know if there are records from Libby Prison? My ancestor, Capt. Martin Scherff, was a prisoner there. Thanks. ________________________________________ Conserve resources. Print only when necessary. NOTE NEW eMAIL ADDRESS : Effective March 31, 2012, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) will no longer accept mail addressed to the "omh.state.ny.us" domain. Please update your address book to reflect our new email domain of "omh.ny.gov”. IMPORTANT NOTICE : This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain confidential information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments. ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A good overview on Libby Prison can be found in William B. Hesseltine's "Civil War Prisons." pp. 60-79. Observations by one Neal Dow, prisoner. Hesseltine has good footnotes to lead to other material. National Archives Record Group 109. There is a section called "Records relating to prisoners, oaths, and paroles": NARA Microfilm Publication M598. These are records of Confederates held in Union prisons. I have used this series twice, and both times I had specific information to find what I was looking for. Records of Union soldiers held in Confederate prisons can be found in National Archives Record Group 249, Records of the Commissary General of Prisons In either case, the only information you will find is a ledger list of soldiers with information about their specific condition. There is no "family information" for prisoners in these records. Most of the "family information" about any member of the military in the Civil War is contained within the soldier's pension records ~ Trevia Trevia Wooster Beverly Houston, Texas 713.864-6862 Coordinator, Angelina College Genealogy Conference http://www.angelina.edu/genealogy/genealogy.html Member APG http://www.apgen.org/ SSA. http://southwestarchivists.org/ TSHA. http://www.tshaonline.org/ Harris County Historical Commission (1995 - ) http://www.historicalcommission.hctx.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "LINDA WHITNEY" <LINDA.WHITNEY@omh.ny.gov> To: <roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:09 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Libby Prison > Does anyone know if there are records from Libby Prison? My ancestor, > Capt. Martin Scherff, was a prisoner there. > Thanks.