My great-great grandfather was a Confederate pow of Federal forces. Where is the location of the prison?
He was a member of the 1st Tenn. Cavalry, Joe Johnston’s army. Is the prison still there? His parole papers indicate it was near Asheville.
There were no Union prisons in NC that I can find, there was a confederate prison near Asheville, called Salisbury Prison. If he was being held here, he was being held by the confederates for some reason. Here is some info on it:
Located in Salisbury, NC on 16 acres purchased by the Confederate Government on November 2, 1861. When purchased, the complex consisted of an old cotton factory building, a large house, six brick tenement buildings, a large house, a blacksmith shop as well as an assortment of smaller buildings. Salisbury Prison was the only Confederate Prison located in North Carolina, in use from 1861-65. The first prisoners at Salisbury were Union soldiers captured at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). The very first POW of the war was held in Salisbury Prison and when first established, life was rough, but prisoners had a large yard with plenty of room to move about. One of the favorite activities before the prison became overcrowded was baseball. Southern political prisoners, along with deserters from both sides joined the swelling ranks of prisoners inside the walls of Salisbury Civil War Prison. Salisbury Prison was designed to hold 2,000 men, at one point however, it held over 10,000 people.
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