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- 4 Insufficient food, extreme bouts of dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, smallpox, inadequate medical care and flooding of the Chemung River resulted in the deaths of 2,963 prisoners at the Elmira prison camp, a mortality rate of about 25 percent.
www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/2014/07/26/elmira-civil-war-prison-camp/13191117/20 facts about Elmira’s Civil War prison camp - Star-Gazette
Confederate mistreatment and enslavement of Black Union soldiers in 1863 disrupted this system; by April 1864 it had been completely suspended, and prisons quickly became overcrowded. Space had recently opened up in Elmira after the departure of six companies of the 179th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
The Eastern New York Reformatory at Napanoch opened in 1900, receiving its inmates by transfer from Elmira. Napanoch, still in the building stage, needed construction workers, so Elmira sent on its older and stronger inmates.
Oct 24, 2024 · State coroners and medical examiners are investigating the death of Robert Fisher at Elmira Correctional Facility. Fisher had just begun serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life after...
Oct 28, 2024 · Robert Fisher, seen in this mug shot, has died in prison after serving only one month into his sentence. Elmira, NY — The man convicted of murdering and raping 3-year-old Josefina Cunningham was ...
Elmira Correctional Facility, also known as "The Hill", is a maximum security state prison located in Chemung County, in the City of Elmira in the US state of New York. It is operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
5 days ago · Union 1864-1865. Elmira, New York. The most notorious camp of the North was located in Elmira, New York where one of the 4 camps that made up the western New York Union Army rendezvous was refitted for use as a prisoner of war camp.
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New York’s Andersonville: The Elmira Military Prison Camp. Lonnie R. Speer. From State of the Union: New York and the Civil War. “Today, however, we realize that there were prisoner-of-war camps in the North that were as bad as any in the South.
