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During the American Civil War, both the Union and Confederacy had a desertion problem. From its 2.5 million or so men, the Union Army saw about 200,000 desertions. Over 100,000 deserted the Confederate army, which was less than a million men and possibly as little as a third the size of the Union Army. New York suffered 44,913 desertions by the war's end, and Pennsylvania recorded 24,050, with...
Work in progress==This master project will be the portal listing the various Confederate POW camps and prisons, and those who were prisoners and guards.==List of prisoner-of-war camps== Camp Ford – near Tyler, Texas - 5,300* Camp Groce - Hempstead, Texas - 600 - 1,100* Camp Oglethorpe - Macon, Georgia 1,200* Florence Stockade - Florence, South Carolina - 15,000 to 18,000 Union soldiers(Numbers ...
UNION VERMONT TROOPS===11th Vermont Infantry==The 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry or simply known as 11th VVI was a three-years infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in eastern theater, from September 1862 to August 1865. It served in the XXII Corps in the defenses of Washington D.C., and with the Vermont Brigade in VI Corps.The regiment was must...