U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865

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Ancestry.com. U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: United States, Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

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This collection includes records of Confederate prisoners of war from the United States.

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