I am looking for any source for prison records for Richmond Prisons, probably Libby, for a Union officer that might have been taken prisoner in this first engagement between Washington and Richmond. I am also looking for records for the Union parole camp in Alexandria, Virginia.

It is my understanding that the 94th New York Volunteer Infantry (Belle Jefferson Rifles) was engaged in this or another early battle, and that my great-great-Grandfather Alfonse Emir Cooley, then a Captain, might have been taken prisoner, moved to Richmond, and then paroled very early in the war. He then served as a functionary in a Union parole camp in Alexandria, Virginia, and then perhaps for a month or two in the Union parole camp in what is now Parole, Maryland. He was mustered out in 1863.

His miltary records of the time indicate that he shows up on the rolls of Libby, or some other POW camp in Richmond, and is then crossed out.

I was glad to find this site and hope to contribute if I find anything further on his work in Alexandria in NARA.