Prisoner of War
Join Pamplin Historical Park for the first of four Focus Weekend events, Prisoners of War, exploring the capture and imprisonment of Civil War soldiers. Between 400,000 and 600,000 soldiers became prisoners during the war, including 3,000 Confederates captured by Union forces on April 2, 1865.
Program Schedule
- 11 a.m. – “Hopeless and Gloomy Enough”
Thematic tour examining desertion, prisons, and the capture story of Henry Robinson Berkeley. - 12 p.m. – Immortal 600 Presentation
Lecture on the 600 Confederate officers held at Fort Pulaski during the Battle of Charleston. - 2 p.m. – Prisoner Processing
Demonstration of what soldiers experienced immediately after capture, including surrendering personal items and information.
Programs are included with paid park admission. Open 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Located in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Pamplin Historical Park is a National Historic Landmark featuring four museums, historic homes, and the Breakthrough Battlefield of April 2, 1865.
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What began in 1991 as an effort to preserve a threatened Civil War battlefield near Petersburg, Virginia, has evolved into one of America’s finest history and heritage travel destinations.
Pamplin Histor
ical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier is a 424-acre historical campus that features world-class museums, antebellum homes, a National Historic Landmark Civil War battlefield, a slave life exhibit, educational programs, and special events. It has been called “the new crown jewel of Civil War sites in America” by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson of Princeton University.
Pamplin Historical Park’s 424 acres encompasses The National Museum of the Civil War Solider, Tudor Hall Plantation, the Field Quarter, the Field Fortifications Exhibit, the Military Encampment, the Battlefield Center, the Breakthrough Trail (and other trails) as well as the Banks House and the Museum’s Gift Shop.