During the Civil War there was some setbacks in the treatment afforded prisoners. There were About 3,170 Federal prisoners joined the Southern forces and about 5,452 prisoners of the Southern armies joined the Federal army. The way Prisoner were to conduct their self’s after capture was mentioned in War Department General Order No. 207, 3 July 1863. Among other things, the order provided that it was their duty as a prisoner of war to escape. This order was intended to curb widespread practices of surrendering. Both sides had no means to take proper care of their prisoners. They could barely feed themselves. Nine years after the Civil War a declaration establishing the rights of prisoners was drafted by the Congress of Brussels (1874). It was
