A Family Portrait
Greenup County, Kentucky
William Archer
Womack
1828–1900
A Greenup County citizen whose Civil War-era records place him at Camp Chase—not as an enlisted soldier, but as a civilian prisoner.
October 1862–January 1863
A civilian prisoner at Camp Chase
The prisoner-of-war index names W. A. Womack as a citizenfrom Greenup County, Kentucky. It records that he was taken prisoner at home on October 6, 1862, arrived at Camp Chase five days later, and was discharged on January 15, 1863.
- Name in record
- W. A. Womack
- Status
- Citizen — not a soldier
- Home
- Greenup County, Kentucky
- Taken prisoner
- October 6, 1862, at home
- Arrived at Camp Chase
- October 11, 1862
- Discharged
- January 15, 1863
The archive groups this card with prisoner-of-war records, but the rank field says “Citizen.” This profile therefore does not describe William as a Confederate soldier.
Sources and provenance
- Family portrait supplied by a Womack family descendant; handwritten identification on the image reads “Wm. Archer Womack” and “died 1900.”
- U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861–1865, W. A. Womack; Camp Chase Military Prison, Ohio; National Archives Record Group 109, microfilm publication M598; digital images accessed through Fold3.