At the close of the war over 60,000 Confederate prisoners were released. The records of the war department shows that 220,000 Confederates were made prisoners in the war. This includes, of course, the surrender of the armies at the close. Of this number 25,000 died of wounds and disease during their captivity. The estimated number of Union captives were about 200,000, of whom 40,000 died in captivity.
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Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
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Page [42]: "Thoughfare Gap" should be "Thoroughfare Gap".
Page [46]: "Court Marshal" was printed that way.