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Jul 23, 2021 · According to Gray: Eventually, workers dug more than thirty-six trenches and laid to rest 2,973 Confederates at Woodlawn Cemetery.48 Incidentally, it would have cost Prison Commissary Hoffman only $480 if the Sexton had been paid monthly. Instead, Hoffman paid him a total of $7,432.50 for prisoner burials.
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Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp –...
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He and two family members armed themselves and made an...
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May 30, 2010 · This historical marker and monument is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. A significant historical year for this entry is 1861. Location. 42° 4.947′ N, 76° 49.295′ W. Marker is in Elmira, New York, in Chemung County. Marker is at the intersection of Winsor Avenue and Hoffman Street, on the right when traveling east on Winsor Avenue.
Elmira Prison was originally a barracks for "Camp Rathbun" or "Camp Chemung", a key muster and training point for the Union Army during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1864. The 30-acre (120,000 m 2 ) site was selected partially due to its proximity to the Erie Railroad and the Northern Central Railway , which crisscrossed in the midst of the city.
Elmira, New York, was once the site of one of the Civil War’s most notorious prison camps. Now a suburban neighborhood, only a few historic markers identify the site as the location of Camp Elmira, where nearly 3,000 Confederate prisoners of war died. The camp was in operation only a short time, from July of 1864, through the summer of 1865. During that time, the squalid conditions and high ...
Jul 18, 2021 · In May, 1864 the Elmira prison camp was created. One of the four depot barracks was selected for the prison. It had housed 2,000 to 3,000 new recruits. Now it was supposed to house 10,000 Confederate prisoners inside a hastily built twelve foot high stockade. The buildings on site had a maximum capacity of only 4,000.
Jul 16, 1989 · July 16, 1989 12 AM PT. Associated Press. ELMIRA, N.Y. — Like some rusty bayonet or tattered battle flag hidden away in the attic, the Elmira prison camp is an all-but-forgotten relic of the ...
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Aug 4, 2015 · But in the meantime, the immediate goal of the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp is to reassemble the lumber that made up the building, which is 150 years old.
