Is there a record of Civil War prisoners at Andersonville?

Answer 1

Here's the direct link to the Andersonville Prisoner Database. Just go there and type in the name of your relative or person of interest.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/prisoners.htm

You can even search the 'Regiments' and find out where they went throughout the Civil War. http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm This way you might find out what battles this person participated in, etc. Look at the top of this page to see what other databases you can search - There is one for Soldiers, as well.

I thought I would add an historcal fact about this prison and the Civil War in general. Henry Wirz, the commandant of Andersonville was the only Confederate soldier executed for war crimes.

Answer 2

Yes. They are all over the place! Here is one:
http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/
It is preserved by the National Park Service, so you can contact them. Probably just about every library in the country will have at least one book on Andersonville. Although infamous as a prison camp for the Union soldiers, it should be noted that it resulted in the Treaty of Versailles, which afforded rights to prisoners of war. The problem is, mostly only European countries afford any of those rights.
Anyhew, just google "andersonville prison" and you will get so many hits.
One of my great-grandfathers died there.

Answer 3

The three you've had are all good suggestions. The National Park service is the place to start. They can give you the information you are looking for and speed up your National Archives search immensely. The National Archives (NARA) will do a search for military information for you, at a cost of $17.00. You set up an account in advance, supplying them with a credit card number, but they will not charge you anything until they find the information you are looking for. I did a search for a friend, who had much more information about his grandfather than many people start out with. The National Park Service database is more flexible, allowing searches by names, places of enlistment, etc.. I didn't discover the NPS index until after I had submitted the search. It also supplied the Microfilm reel number, which would have speeded the search up quite a bit. NARA said the search might take 30-60 days and it did, without the reel number. I will attach the links.

Answer 4

Criminal Records Search Database : http://InfoSearchDetective.com