Summary:
Robert Ould writes Confederate General W. M. Gardner with a list of the Confederacy's Prisoner of War depots. Ould mentions Staunton as one of the towns holding prisoners of war.

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JULY 22, 1864.

Returned to Lieut.-Gen. Ewell.

The only regular depots of prisoners that I know are Richmond, Salisbury, Columbia, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Cahaba, and Tyler (in Texas); Staunton, Charleston, Jackson, and other places, however, have been temporarily used for the purpose. It is probable there are prisoners as these points now. It is of the very greatest importance that monthly or semi-monthly reports from each depot should be made to some one in Richmond, otherwise it will be practically impossible for me to answer inquiries.

RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 2, Volume 7, Serial No. 120, Pages 482, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.