Ira P. Hurt Confederate, Union POW captured at Marietta, Georgia. U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
Confederate
Illinois: Rock Island Barracks, Military Prison
v. 393-394: Prisoner registers, 1862-1865

Rock Island was one of the largest and most notorious Union prison camps during the Civil War. The prison was opened in November 1863. The first groups of prisoners arrived at the prison on December 3, 1863. There were 5,592 prisoners in all. They were from Camp Douglas and a captured Confederates from the battles at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.