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Haven't seen anything comparable for Port Hudson [yet!] Here is some prisoner info for Port Hudson

Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi
Lawrence Lee Hewitt

Appendix I
Confederate Strength a Port Hudson
July 9, 1863* Agg Present 6404
*Confederate Paroles, RG 393. Includes 5953 NCO’s & Privates paroled and 451 officers retained as prisoners. Available evidence indicates approximately 100 additional officers and men escaped.
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Edmonds, David C., The Guns of Port Hudson Vol. 2)
(Aggregate present, 5,718 troops on May 19, 1863, and 5,001 on July 9, 1863.

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/porthudson/or_banks_general.htm
In this campaign we captured 10,584 prisoners, as follows:
Paroled men at Port Hudson, exclusive of the sick and wounded, 5,953--officers, 455;
captured by Grierson at Jackson, 150;
First [Arkansas Battalion] and Fifteenth Arkansas captured May 27, 101;
on board steamers in Thompson's Creek, 25;
deserters, 250;
sick and wounded, 1,000;
captured at Donaldsonville, June 28, 150;
captured west of the Mississippi, 2,500;
in all, a number fully equal to the force to which the garrison surrendered. We also captured 73 guns, 4,500 pounds of powder, 150,000 rounds of ammunition, 6,000 small-arms, 4 steamers, 20,000 head of horses, cattle, and mules, 10,000 bales of cotton, and destroyed the enemy's salt-works at New Iberia, 3 gunboats, and 8 steam transports. The cattle, horses, mules, cotton, and other products of the country were sent to New Orleans, turned over to the quartermaster, and, except such as could be used by the army in kind, were applied to the support of the Government.

http://www.nytimes.com/1863/07/26/news/captures-port-hudson-official-report-gen-banks-fifty-five-hundred-prisoners-51.html
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE GULF, NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Port Hudson, La., July 10, 1863.
SIR: I have the honor to inform you that with the post there fell into our hands over 5,500 prisoners, including 1 major-general and 1 brigadier-general, 20 pieces of heavy artillery, 5 complete batteries, numbering 31 pieces of field artillery, a good supply of projectiles for light and heavy guns, 44,000 pounds of cannon powder, 5,000 stand of small-arms, 150,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, besides a small amount of stores of various kinds.
We captured also two steamers, one of which is very valuable, and will be of great service at this time.
I am, General, very respectfully your obedient servant,
N. P. BANKS,
Major-General, Commanding.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief, Washington, D.C.

http://www.history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/arcwmb/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=13282
Re: Port Hudson Prisoners
By: Art Bergeron
Date: 8/2/2006, 8:06 am
In Response To: Re: Port Hudson Prisoners (Gary Hardy)
Gary, I do not think the parole lists have ever been microfilmed for the public so probably are not available at the Fort Worth Regional Archives. When I worked at the Port Hudson SHS, we had the lists microfilmed along with some other Port Hudson records, but I doubt National Archives kept a copy of the reels.
http://pth.thehardyparty.com/
Banks agreed to parole the Confederate enlisted men, but sent the officers to prison. Of the prisoners, 5,593 were paroled and some 500 sick and wounded were retained in the hospitals. General Gardner reported his casualties as 200 killed, between 300 and 400 wounded, and about 200 died from sickness. Only about 2,500 men were fit for duty at the time of the surrender.

http://pth.thehardyparty.com/soldiers.htm
Confederate Soldiers Who Served at Port Hudson
(Includes Soldiers from AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, TN, TX, and Staff/Misc. Units)

A goal has been to compile a database, as complete and accurate as possible, which contains the names of the Confederate soldiers who served at Port Hudson, and in particular, those who fought there during the siege period. This data has come from a number of sources, including the Federal list of Confederate parolees, the Federal list of officers captured, the Port Hudson Post Hospital Ledger, soldiers Confederate Service Records, personal accounts of soldiers, books, and others. Approximately 9,550 names are included in this database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Hudson#cite_note-44
Both sides had suffered heavy casualties: between 4,700 to 5,200 Union men were casualties, and an additional 4,000 fell prey to disease or sunstroke; Gardner's forces suffered around 900 casualties, from battle losses and disease. Banks granted lenient terms to the Port Hudson garrison. The enlisted men were paroled to their homes, with transport for the sick and lightly wounded. Seriously sick or wounded were placed under Union medical care. 5,935 men and civilian employees of the Confederate Army were officially paroled. 405 officers were not paroled and as prisoners to Memphis and New Orleans, half eventually winding up in Johnson's Island prison camp in Ohio. Since the terms of the parole were not in agreement with parole conditions acceptable to the Union and Confederate armies then current, the Confederate Army furloughed the returned troops until September 15, 1863, then returned them to duty. This outraged some leaders of the Union army, but General Halleck, in charge of US armies, admitted the paroles were in error.

http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?RegimentHistory?97&U%3E
CONNECTICUT TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT C. V. INFANTRY. (Nine Months.)
WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN LOREN A. GALLUP, LATE OF COMPANY F, TWENTY-SIXTH CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS.
On July 7th news was received of the surrender of Vicksburg, and
on the next day Port Hudson surrendered, with 6,408 prisoners

Southern Historical Society Papers.
Vol. XIV. Pg. 305-325
Richmond, Va., January-December. 1886.
Fortification and Siege of Port Hudson--Compiled by the Association of Defenders
of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary
CONFEDERATE LOSS.
May 20--Killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Total, 89--Report of Miles.
May 27--Killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. Total, 225.
Surrendered.
"Banks's" report--6,408 men.
(Page 137), twenty pieces heavy Arty, 31 pieces light Arty, 30 pieces dismounted; 5,000 good muskets, and 5,000 not good; 32,000 pounds powder in magazine; 12,000 made up; 150,000 cartridges for small arms. Col Ben. Johnson, say about 3,000 active, and 1,250 sick and wounded--total, 4,250.

NARA RG 109

Official Records

8/8/63 Gainesville, Ala., Pemberton to Cooper-Troops of TM Dept had abandoned army before permission was obtained to furlough them. They are ordered to rendezvous at Camden. Can I send a few Ark troops paroled at Port Hudson to that place?

9/9/63 Shreveport, TM HQs to Gen Dockery-In obedience to S O #133 par IX and to your letter of instructions from the War Dept of 8/10, you will proceed without delay to collect and organize the troops west of the Miss belonging to the garrisons of Vicksburg & Port Hudson. You will forward as early as practical the lists called for in your letter of instructions from Richmond. The troops will be organized in 2 Bgdes, one each for the troops from Vicksburg and Port Hudson. In cases where Co’s or Regts from Port Hudson are without officers these commands may be temporarily consolidated with the Regts of the Vicksburg Bgde, but the Dept Cdr is anxious if possible to organized the 2 Bgdes distinct and fill the ranks with recruits.

10/10/63 Confederate prisoners --The following communication from the Confederate Agent of Exchange, of Richmond, conveys important information to confederate paroled prisoners. It releases from their parole and restores to duty a large number of gallant men whose services are needed by their country:

CSA, War Dept, Richmond, Oct. 10, 1863. Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange to Lt. Col. N. G. Watts, Mobile: Sir --All the prisoners taken at Port Hudson and those paroled by Gen. Banks are free to go to duty. Neither our Gov’t nor the Federal recognize the parole. A Gen Order to this effect will issue in a few days. All Confederate prisoners who have been delivered at any other point then Vicksburg or City Point can immediately return to their commands, where such delivery was made 23rd May last. You need not recognize any parole given since the 23rd May last, which was not in pursuance of a distinct agreement, made between the Cdrs of the two opposing armies.

Prisoners must be reduced into possession and delivered either at Vicksburg or City Point, unless there is some distinct agreement to the contrary, made by the "Cdrs of two opposing armies." The deliveries made at Mobile or Port Hudson will not be recognized. All such can immediately return to duty. The Federals have forced us to assume this position. There is no danger to our people in returning to duty, because the Federals recognize the full force of the rule and acquiesce in it. They have done the same thing with the captures made by us.

11/28/63 Hqs TM Dept G O #59
The following notice relating to paroled prisoners is published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

CSA, War Dept, Richmond, Oct. 10, 1863. Robert Ould, Agent of Exchange to Lt. Col. N. G. Watts, Mobile: Sir --All the prisoners taken at Port Hudson and those paroled by Gen. Banks are free to go to duty. Neither our Gov’t nor the Federal recognizes the parole.
In accordance with the above, all officers and enlisted men in the TM Dept embraced in this notice will report for duty immediately. K Smith

Richmond, Va., June 22, 1864.
Capt. JAMES R. CURELL, Mobile :
Sir: Your letter of the 10th instant making certain inquiries has been received.
The subject is one of some difficulty. My view is that the Port Hudson prisoners were declared exchanged by Notice No. 7, October 16, 1863. Being exchanged they were then subject to capture, and if they gave a new parole they are bound by it. Such, then, as gave a parole after the date of Exchange Notice No. 7 are subject to the conditions of the new parole, provided the Yankees themselves proceeded in the regular way with their captures. The Federals have themselves declared that all prisoners must be delivered at City Point or Vicksburg, unless there is a formal agreement between competent parties to the contrary.
They therefore refused to recognize the delivery at Brashear City. No agreement has been made to receive prisoners at Pascagoula by parties competent to enter into any such agreement.
My conclusion, therefore, is that the parties you refer to are not bound by their parole, not because the parole is not valid, but because they were not properly delivered. You are aware I resisted this Yankee theory about delivery at one or the other place, but without avail. We have been compelled to accept the doctrine. The men can be sent to duty, and you will dispose of all similar cases hereafter in the same way. We will try and make the Yankees sick with their own physic. If these men had been delivered at Vicksburg, or if we had agreed to consider Pascagoula as a place of mutual delivery, the case would be otherwise and the paroles would have been binding.
Respectfully, your obedient servant, Ro Ould

Series II, Volume VII - (Union and Confederate Correspondence), Chapter I - Correspondence, Orders, etc relating to Prisoners of War and State
Paroled at Port Hudson
Enlisted men 5, 953
Reduced to privates 7,158

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