Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established ... Elder, William Henry. Civil War Diary (1862-1865 ...

A code used by Civil War lieutenant was deciphered, more than 150 years later. Jim Gandy, assistant librarian at the New York State Military Museum, holds the diary of Confederate officer James M.

Open for only six weeks toward the end of the Civil War ... diaries and letters from the time, including the drawings and accounts of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a Union prisoner in the camp.