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May 18, 2018 · A ferry boat crossed at the foot of Conongue Street (today’s Madison Avenue.) The ferry boatman lived in a house near the river end of Robinson Street. Park Church had not yet been built. A ...
- Diane Janowski
The most notorious camp of the North was located in Elmira, New York where one of the four camps that made up the western New York Union Army rendezvous was refitted for use as a prisoner of war camp.
Jul 25, 2024 · The Elmira Civil War Prison Camp saw thousands of troops from 1861-65. Elmira was one of the few places in New York to assemble recruits besides Albany and New York City. A group of volunteers has brought that history to life for visitors.
Nov 5, 2020 · Elmira, a Union prisoner of war camp located in New York, opened in July 1864 after many other Union prisons were at capacity. Almost 3,000 Confederate POWs died at the camp from disease, exposure to the elements or malnutrition during its one year in operation.
In 1849, the New York and Erie Railroad was built through Elmira, giving the area a New York City to Buffalo route. In 1850, the Elmira and Jefferson Railroad gave the area a route north and, in 1854, the Elmira and Williamsport Railroad a route south.
May 15, 2020 · Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed only from the...
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Long called by some the “Andersonville of the North,” the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-run POW camps. It existed for only a year—from the summer of 1864 to July 1865—but in that time, and for long after, it became darkly emblematic of man’s inhumanity to man.
