I am pretty sure that captured are included in casualty figures.  Unless
another soldier actually saw the prisoner being captured, I would guess
there would be no way for a particular force to figure out which of
their soldiers were prisoners and which were simply missing.
"Private Smith is gone, no idea if he was captured or simply ran off."

It would probably actually be a while before the "enemy" received word
of which prisoners that say the Union army actually had.  I'm not sure,
but I would imagine that the prisoners would end up at their final POW
camp before they were able to write home and a roster was put together
of all new arrivals to send back to their respective government.

John Gaines, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
History Department
Texas Tech University

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