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You may want to start by searching the Confederate Civil War Service Records on Fold3. Fold3 is an online subscription database for military records, and you may be able to access it remotely through your public library with your library card.

Johnson's Island was a Federal Prison Camp, the majority of records from Johnson's Island are part of the United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 at the National Archives and Records Administration. These records are also on FamilySearch. Although not name searchable, you can use the browse feature to select records from Johnson's Island and page through much like viewing microfilm.

The following items are available to researchers in the Archives & Library at the Ohio History Center:

SAS 1425 Military prison record, Camp Chase and Johnson's Island - Entries include prisoner's name, characteristics (rank or occupation), date received, home state, where imprisoned, discharge information, and remarks. Includes index.

SAS 2235 Book of the Confederate dead - Lists Confederate prisoners who were buried in Ohio at Camp Chase, Camp Dennison, and Johnson's Island. Entries include name, date of death, company, regiment, and grave number. Maps of cemeteries are provided.

MSS 261 Johnson's Island collection - Correspondence from Confederate soldiers at a Union prison camp near Sandusky, Ohio, list of prisoners, account book, and prisoner's autograph book.

See also: Johnson's Island POW Research: Friends and Descendents of Johnson's Island (heidelberg.edu).