The Belle Island Confederate Provost Marshal registered Private Solomon Crist and the Union Second Corps enlisted prisoners.

The Belle Island Confederate Provost Marshal registered Private Solomon Crist and the Union Second Corps enlisted prisoners.

Solomon Crist and the Union Second Army prisoners

The Confederate practice with Union prisoners was to separate the officers from the enlisted. The officers went to Libby Prison in Richmond, while the non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel initially went to Belle Isle in the James River. On August 27, 1864, the Confederate Provost Marshal on Richmond’s Belle Island recorded 1,745 Army of the Potomac prisoners captured at Ream’s Station and one Army of the James prisoner, Private Solomon Crist.

Confederate Provost Marshal, Belle Island Prison, Richmond, VA, August 27, 1864

War Department. The Adjutant General’s Office. Prisoner of War Division, “List of Federal Troops Captured at Reams’ Station, Virginia and Received at Confederate Military Prisons in Richmond, Virginia, 1886 - 1886” (Richmond, VA, 1864), Record Group 249: Records of the Commissary General of Prisoners, 1861 - 1905 Container Identifier: Volume 68, National Archives at Washington, DC.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/616054.

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Prisoner List

Belle Isle, Virginia

Prisoner List