Web: US, Andersonville and Fort McHenry Civil War Prisoner Index, 1861-1865

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Ancestry.com. Web: US, Andersonville and Fort McHenry Civil War Prisoner Index, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Soldier and Sailors Database. Prisoners. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-prisoners.htm: accessed 9 October 2015.

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