I am interested in finding additional information on known black POWs from the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers (subsequently designated the 79th USCT)caputed in Arkansas. Although the practical policy executed by Confederate forces there appears to be one of not taking black prisoners, the records show that some were in fact taken as POWs, including from this regiment during the failed Camden Expedition in Arkansas.

At least two men from the regiment were captured in the Union hospital at Camden Arkansas on April 26, 1864, and both are shown as present at "Princeton" (I believe this is Princeton, Arkansas) on June 16, 1864.

I am looking for information on where captured black soldiers may have been held as prisoners of war in the Trans-Mississippi theater and any information on a possible Confederate Hospital at Princeton, Arkansas.

Thank you,

Chris Tabor
Katy, TX