They captured four wagon trains and 1,000 Union prisoners.
He oversaw the final exchange of Union prisoners of war at the end of the conflict.
Quarles spent the rest of the war as a Union prisoner.
At its height in August 1864, the camp housed over 30,000 Union prisoners of war.
He was commended by Union prisoners for his humane treatment of them.
Left for dead on the field, he recovered consciousness as a Union prisoner of war.
It's come through some Union prisoners we've taken.
It was not the single Union prisoner they had in hand, identified, who had him worried.
Built to house 8,000 Union prisoners, Andersonville came to hold 45,000.
During the summer of 1864 Union prisoners suffered greatly from hunger, exposure and disease.