Island History – Civil War Era – POW Listing
Barbiere List
This information comes from Joe Barbiere’s list of prisoners of war, as published in Scraps from the Prison Table ¹. This list includes only those prisoners on Johnson’s Island prior to September of 1862. Prisoners on the island after this date are not listed.
Prisoners Confined at Johnson’s Island: | A-B | C-D | E-G | H | I-L | M | N-R | S | T-Z |
Paroled Prisoners Arrived in Prison
List of Commands in Prison
List of Commands in Prison
“The following commands, representing the eleven Confederate States, have their unfortunate representatives in prison — 121 commands.”
Name | Rank | Regiment | Co | Where Captured | When Captured | |||
Kentucky. | Mississippi. | Texas. | Tennessee. | |||||
2nd Inf. | 23 | 7 | 50 | |||||
8th Inf. | 4 | 1st Legn. | 42 | |||||
5th Inf. | 15 | 8 | 1 | |||||
Morgan’s Cav. | 14 | 10th C’y. | 55 | |||||
3rd Ky. Inf. | 26 | 9 | ||||||
9th Ky. Inf. | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Williams’ Rgt. | 7 | 45 | ||||||
4th Regt. | 20 | 49 | ||||||
1st Cav. | 10 | 53 | ||||||
1 Bt. Cav. | 32 | |||||||
Issaquena Art. | 41 | |||||||
30 | ||||||||
40 | ||||||||
Arkansas. | Georgia. | Louisiana. | 18 | |||||
11 | 1 | 9 | 20 | |||||
15 | 25 | 13 | 10 | |||||
16 | 5 | 20 | 29 | |||||
1 Batt. In. | Ga. Bat. | 4 | 19 | |||||
13 | 5 | 46 | ||||||
10 | 21 | 48 | ||||||
4 | Pt. Coupee A. | 11 | ||||||
McRay’s B | Orleans Gd. B | 25 | ||||||
Crescent Gds. | 54 | |||||||
7 | ||||||||
Forrest’s Cavalry. | ||||||||
Missouri. | Alabama. | Virginia. | 1 Batt. Infantry. | |||||
6th. | 27 Inf. | 139 | Tennessee Artillery. | |||||
Mo. St. Gd. | 1 Inf. | 31 | Comb’s Tenn. Batt. | |||||
1st Mo. Cav. | 3 Batt. | 56 | Murray’s Artillery. | |||||
Eng’r Corps. | 16 Inf. | 32 | Maney’s Artillery. | |||||
Jeff Thompson’s Brig. | 2 Inf. | 129 | Jackson Batt. | |||||
21 Inf. | 60 | Grave’s Battery. | ||||||
17 Inf. | 14 | Porter’s Battery. | ||||||
22 Inf. | 51 | 16th Tenn. Infantry. | ||||||
22 | 154th Sr. Tenn. | |||||||
89 | Adams’ Cavalry. | |||||||
North Carolina. | Virginia Artillery. | Green’s Batt. Art. | ||||||
33 | Floyd’s Brigade. | Thetman’s Art. | ||||||
28 | French’s Va. Art. | Zollicoffer’s Brigade | ||||||
37 | Caskey’s Va. Cav. | 1 Ala. Tenn. & Miss. | ||||||
32 | Va. Rangers. | |||||||
26 | ||||||||
40 | Con. States Navy. | |||||||
Gunboat Flotilla. | ||||||||
Go to other sections of Joe Barbiere’s list: Prisoners Confined at Johnson’s Island: | A-B | C-D | E-G | H | I-L | M | N-R | S | T-Z |
Paroled Prisoners Arrived in Prison
List of Commands in Prison
¹ Barbiere, Joe, Lieut. Col. Late C.S.A. Scraps from the Prison Table, at Camp Chase and Johnson’s Island. Doylestown, PA: W.W.H. Davis, Printer, 1868.
* The asterisk in front of a name denotes names of POW’s who are included in a second list titled “Casualties and changes among Commissioned Officers after exchange”. For more information about a specific POW with an asterisk, e-mail jipres@johnsonsisland.org.