Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon shekarun yakin basasa, an yi amfani da sansanin arewa don rike jami'an kungiyar da aka kama a matsayin fursunonin yaki a yayin da ake jiran canja wuri zuwa wasu gidajen kurkuku na Union kamar su Camp Johnson a Ohio, Fort Delaware ko Fort Warren a Boston Harbor. Fort Columbus da Castle Williams sun kuma yi aiki a matsayin sansanin fursunoni na wucin gadi da kuma asibitin da aka tsare ga fursunonin Confederate a lokacin yakin. Babban Janar William H. C. Whiting (CSA) ya mutu ne daga dysentery a watan Fabrairun 1865 a asibitin gidan waya jim kadan bayan mika wuya a yakin Fort Fisher
, Arewacin Carolina. Shi ne mafi girman jami'in Confederate da ya mutu a matsayin fursunonin yaki.